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Viaje alrededor del mundo hecho en los años 1768, 69, 70 y 71…
Madrid: Imprenta de Don Tomás Jordan, 1832. Six volumes, duodecimo, 6 engraved plates (one in each volume), original blue printed wrappers preserved, early owner's name on the title-pages, old stamps from Barcelona library, bookplates of José Gallart Folch; a charming set in contemporary Spanish quarter calf, gilt. Very uncommon first.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4106630
Carte d'une Partie de la Cote de la Nle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Cape Tribulation to Cape York
Engraved map, 295 x 335 mm.; original folds. French edition of Cook's chart, which was published the previous year in an engraving by John Cheevers after Cook's original for Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4504222
Carte de la Nlle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Point Hicks to Cape York
Engraved map, 370 x 785 mm.; original folds; with good margins; mounted. Perhaps Cook's most famous chart, here in its first French version, prepared for the French language edition of the official account of the Endeavour voyage. The magnificent sweep...
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2904309
Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales…
London: 1773.
The Queensland coast charted by Cook on the Endeavour
Engraved map, 325 x 360 mm. Mounted. The earliest charting of the coast of Queensland, commemorating one of the most memorable passages of Cook's first voyage. This map, prepared by Cook himself, details the tracks and anchorages of the...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3502575
Three works relating to the transit of Venus…
London: The Royal Society, 1771.
Captain Cook's astronomy printed for the Royal Society
Small quarto, pp. 397-436, with a folding plate and the title page for the Philosophical Transactions Vol. LXI bound in; in marbled wrappers. Three important articles relating to some of the chief scientific concerns of Cook's Endeavour...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4205931
Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World…
London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
First publication of the Corner Journal
Quarto, with portrait frontispiece, four maps and plates bound in as well as three large folding charts in rear endpaper sleeve; in the original polished wooden boards, morocco spine lettered in gilt. A wonderful Cook relic: one of just fifty...
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4303378
A Journal of a Voyage round the World…
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771.
Earliest account of the Endeavour voyage: from the library of George III
Quarto, complete with the rare dedication leaf; trimmed to a square octavo size, with pages cut close to the text; an unusual copy but in fact most attractive, bound in contemporary polished...
Price (AUD):
$48,500.00
Ref: #4503929
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas…
London: C. Dilly and J. Phillips, 1784.
A highly unusual coloured Parkinson with the plates in two states
Quarto, second enlarged edition, with a frontispiece portrait, two maps (one double-page), and 26 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring and with the uncoloured plates bound in duplicate; notably wide margins, contemporary binding...
Price (AUD):
$55,000.00
Ref: #4503971
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas…
London: Printed for Stanfield Parkinson, the Editor, 1773.
Uncut in original boards, and larger than ever.
Large quarto, with frontispiece portrait, a map and 26 plates; completely uncut and partly unopened; an exceptionally large copy in its original binding of blue-grey paper boards, plain paper spine carefully renewed; in a....
Price (AUD):
$28,500.00
Ref: #4504475
Voyage autour du monde…
Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Guillaume, 1797.
First French issue
Two volumes, octavo, good impressions of the six folding engraved plates after Parkinson, a particularly handsome set in contemporary French mottled calf, flat spine gilt, double red and tan morocco labels. First French edition, first issue: the artist's account of Cook's...
Price (AUD):
$7,750.00
Ref: #3807772
Autograph letter signed to John Hawkesworth…
London: c. 1771.
First Lord of the Admiralty to Cook's first editor
Quarto, autograph manuscript in ink; single page on a bifolium with address panel; on paper watermarked "LVG" An amusing letter from Lord Sandwich to John Hawkesworth, editor and ghostwriter of the official account of Cook's first voyage (An...
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4504815
… Journal d'un Voyage autour du Monde, Fait par MM. Banks & Solander…
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1772.
First French edition
Octavo, blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage, and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3812970
Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for the Year of Our Redemption 1775…
Boston: Mills & Hicks, 1774. Duodecimo, 32 pp., original printed wrappers. Rare American-printed Almanac with an important notice of "An Account of the Inhabitants of New Zealand, (embellished with an elegant Representation of a Warrior of that Nation, and two Natives of New-Holland, advancing to Combat)." A full-page of text...
Price (AUD):
$3,850.00
Ref: #4011293