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Modern Voyages:
Dublin: Chamberlaine and Rice, P. Wogan and others, 1790.
Rare poetic epitaph for Captain Cook
Two volumes, with both half-titles; contemporary mottled calf, flat spines gilt and with double red and green morocco labels. A fine and attractively bound set of voyages collected and edited for the enlightenment of younger.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3810914
Captain J. Cook.
London: Wetton & Jarvis, 1822.
The illustrious persons series
Engraving, 92mm x 63mm (plate size);. For the series Portraits of illustrious persons, after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$485.00
Ref: #3007570
Captn James Cook F.R.S
Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm. Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile. Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.
Price (AUD):
$375.00
Ref: #4007920
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The Death of Captain Cook [caption title].
Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm. Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked.....
Price (AUD):
$385.00
Ref: #4007930
Captain James Cook (proof copy).
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
Proof version of a Captain Cook portrait plate
Engraving, printed upon india paper sheet measuring 180 x 130mm., laid upon larger sheet;. Proof version on india paper, marked "proof" to lower left-hand corner. This portrait is based on the oil painting by Nathaniel Dance now.....
Price (AUD):
$650.00
Ref: #3007744
Captain James Cook.
London: for the Proprietor, 1821.
After the dance portrait
Engraving, 180 x 130 mm. Engraving after the famous portrait by Dance.
Price (AUD):
$325.00
Ref: #3007741
Elogio Historico de Jose Banks…
Lisboa: na Typografia da Mesma Academia, 1848.
A celebration of Sir Joseph Banks
Quarto, 11 pages, laid paper watermarked 1843, original plain paper wrappers. Attractive copy of a very unusual work, a paper presented in Portuguese in 1843 on the life of Sir Joseph Banks. Manoel Maria José da Costa.....
Price (AUD):
$2,250.00
Ref: #4201745
"Portrait of Sr. Joseph Banks. President of the Royal Society" (early caption)…
England: circa 1795-1800.
An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend
Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass. A compelling lifetime portrait of Sir Joseph Banks at the height of his powers, recently rediscovered in England.....
Price (AUD):
$65,000.00
Ref: #4504922
Andrew Kippis, D.D. F.R.S. & S.A.
London: Thos. Macklin, 20 October, 1792.
Earliest major portrait of Cook's biographer
Stipple engraving, 290 x 210 mm., An uncommon portrait of Cook's great first biographer, stipple-engraved by the great artist Bartolozzi, famous for his role in producing many of the engravings relating to Cook's third voyage, including a portrait.....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4308580
Captain James Cook, F.R.S.
London: William Strahan & Cadell, 1777.
The Hodges portrait
Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm. Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of.....
Price (AUD):
$1,450.00
Ref: #3103115
Le Capne. Jacques Cook. Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres
Paris: n.d., but circa 1778.
French version
Engraving, 240mm x 188mm. Fine French version of the Basire engraving of the William Hodges portrait, prepared as frontispiece for the French publication of the official account of the second voyage.
Price (AUD):
$550.00
Ref: #3007743
Captain Cook's Ship "Endeavour". Notes by F.M. Bladen…
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government printer, 1904.
The later history of Captain Cook's Endeavour
Foolscap folio, 3pp; unbound as issued. A government printing, concerning the fate of the Endeavour after her time with Captain Cook, sold to a New Bedford whaler and later working from Newport, Rhode Island. This report.....
Price (AUD):
$300.00
Ref: #4108194
John Boydell, Esq.
London: Cadell & Davies, 21 June, 1814. Soft ground etching, plate size 380 x 325 mm. on a larger sheet; ex-library stamp to verso, together with the relevant letterpress. A fine portrait of the great publisher John Boydell (1720-1804), the most important print publisher of his day, and together with.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #4109664
Viaggio Intorno al Mondo…
Firenze: Giuseppe Allegrini, 1768.
The towering Patagonians
Square octavo, engraved frontispiece, 4, 152 pp., untrimmed, in plain modern boards. Uncommon contemporary Italian edition of the famous account of Byron's circumnavigation by Charles Clerke. As would be expected, the edition includes an excellent new version of the famous frontispiece of an.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4305431
Captain Cook.
London: J. Wilkes, 20 September, 1800.
Commemorative portrait
Engraving, 161 x 114mm. (plate size). A particularly interesting engraved portrait of Cook, after the original by Nathaniel Dance. The vignette at the base of the oval includes a minute but essentially accurate rendering of Webber's scene depicting Cook's death in Hawaii.....
Price (AUD):
$1,350.00
Ref: #3007572
The State of the Prisons in England and Wales…
Warrington: William Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell... and N.Conant... London, 1780.
Prison reform in the 1780s
Octavo, with ten folding engraved plates including seven highly detailed architectural plans; a superb copy in original condition, edges completely uncut, in original boards, spine lettered in ink preserved in a quarter morocco.....
Price (AUD):
$3,400.00
Ref: #4504469
Debarquement A Erramanga, L'une Des Nlles Hebrides.
Paris: circa 1778. Engraving, 155 x 280 mm., some rubbing. View from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage towards the South Pole, showing the landing at Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides Islands.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #4007922
A set of the three voyage accounts…
London: 1773-1784.
Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform contemporary provenance
Together eight volumes, quarto, and two folio Atlases; uniformly bound in contemporary polished diced russia leather, decorated in blind and gilt, atlases in half binding with marbled paper sides matching the endpapers of the text volumes; all volumes.....
Price (AUD):
$68,500.00
Ref: #4504379
Chart of the Friendly Islands.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1786. Engraved chart, 220 x 330 mm. Chart showing Cook's route around the Tongan Islands, which he discovered in 1773. The Islands are also known as the Friendly Islands because of the reception that Captain Cook received. Published for Anderson's New, Authentic and Complete Collection of.....
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #4012365
A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World…
London: Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the Kings' Arms, 1784-1786.
Cook in a million words
Folio, with altogether 157 engraved maps, plans and views, with about 25 of the plates having more than one image; modern half calf. An unusually good, complete copy of this huge compendium of Cook's three.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4504297
The Journals of Captain James Cook…
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1968-1974.
Authoritative edition
Five volumes and portfolio of charts, thick octavo, coloured frontispieces, numerous black and white plates and maps (some folding), original decorated cloth with dust-jackets. The most reliable and authoritative narrative of Cook's three voyages, edited by J.C. Beaglehole. This set comprises the original Hakluyt.....
Price (AUD):
$2,500.00
Ref: #3602279
The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain Cook…
London: Royal Society, 1784.
Bronze issue of the Royal Society medal
Bronze medal, 43 mm. diameter, relief bust of Captain Cook on recto, full-length relief portrait of Fortune leaning on a column while resting her hand upon a rudder which is affixed to a globe on verso. The bronze issue.....
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4212270
"Capt. James Cook: Courage and Perseverance".
London: circa 1780.
Exceptionally rare medal, an early commemoration of Cook's death
Bronze medal, 37 mm. Extremely rare: the "Courage and Perseverance" medal, struck soon after news of Cook's death reached England. News of Cook's death was first published in Büsching's Wöchentlichte Nachrichten (Berlin, 1780) in early January 1780, via.....
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4102433
Representation of the Death of Capt. Cook.
London: imprint clipped, but S.A. Cumberlege, 1 July, 1781. Engraving, 145 x 180 mm., laid paper, mounted. Early and very important representation of the death of Captain Cook: evidently based on John Webber's original painting, this engraving actually predates the more famous Bartolozzi engraving with which Webber's name is now.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3003085