Hordern House Rare Books
The Robert and Mary Anne Parks Collection: Parts I & II
The Bob and Mary Anne Parks Collection is a landmark of its kind, and represents the finest such collection offered. These comprehensive and extensively illustrated catalogues will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference works on the subject. The catalogues include highlights such as: " An extraordinary original letter by Cook, entirely in his own hand, asking for the return of a press-ganged sailor " Joseph Banks's engraved map of Cook's first voyage, the first map of the east coast of Australia, and never before offered for sale " Magnificent engraved portraits of Cook, Banks, Omai and others " An original manuscript map from Cook's surveying of Newfoundland " Samples of genuine tapa cloth in the contemporary books of Alexander Shaw and Anders Sparrman " All of the major recorded engravings of the death of Captain Cook " original and evocative manuscript material by Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian " the two magnificent aquatints of Bligh, his officers and crew being cast adrift from HMS Bounty and Transplanting the Bread Fruit trees from Otahite " the legendary rarity, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Court Martial held at Portsmouth, 1792 " accounts of the official narrative of the voyage and the subsequent mutiny, to name just a few.
Quarto, bound in cloth with colour dustjackets. Items fully described and illustrated in colour throughout, with bibliography of principal references and an index.
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Australian: $90 (Approx. US $81, Euro €62)
ISBN 9781875567560 & 9781875567539
