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Anderson George William - (Cook Capt James) A New And Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World 1784

Realised: $1,100 plus premium

Lot Details

Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full and Complete History of Captain Cook's First, Second, third and Last Voyages. Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, etc, etc, in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres etc, etc nd Successively Performed in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771-1772, 1773, 1774-1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, etc, etc. Printed for the Proprietors, and Published by Alex Hogg, London, 1784. TP trimmed lower edge, frontis port of Cook, all maps and plates as required, new EPs, ex-libris BP of Charles R G Glover and New Zealand Founders Society and other tipped in label, full contemporary calf (lacking and worn) otherwise a sound, clean and tight copy. Scarce.