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Cook (Captain James)

Description:

3 volumes, I. 623, II. (iii). III. 626, (x) pages, engraved portrait of Captain Cook in volume I, frontispieces in the other two volumes, 2 engraved plates, large folding map at the end of volume I showing Cook's voyages, recently bound in marbled paper with leather title labels, pages edges dyed light green, whilst printed on indifferent quality paper the contents are free of foxing and browning.

Details:

  • Publisher: B. Ph. Bauer
  • Publisher Place: Vienna
  • Date of Publication: 1803
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo (200 x 130 mm)
  • Lot No: 125
  • Hammer Price: $552
  • Bids: 6
  • Visits: 76
  • Estimate: $400/500
  • Reserve: $300

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  • Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
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    Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.