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Published by Chanticleer Press, New York, 1949
Seller: Archer's Used and Rare Books, Inc., Kent, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Previous owner's signature in ink on tp. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Ships & the Sea; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17605.
Published by The Cresset Press, London, 1949
Seller: Plane Tree Books, Taupo, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 384pp - blue cloth - minor soiling - previous owner's stamp to front endpaper - content edges lightly foxed - some sporadic red pen notes and underlining to contents but not too obtrusive - dustwrapper is moderately rubbed and soiled - moderate wear and chipping to edges with a few small losses.
Published by London: Cresset Press, 1949
Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in Good+ DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; tightly bound; clean interior with slight general age darkening. DJ is price-clipped with some edge wear including 3/4 inch closed tear at front cover/spine head joint; some age darkening. 8vo, 384 pp; index; map end papers.
Published by W.P.Nimmo,Hay &Mitchell, 1896
Seller: mauna kea books, Kurtistown, HI, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. red leather, gold decorations,Hampstead Preparatory School stamped in gold on cover,raised bands on spine,spine label worn and chipped, marbled edges,251 pages,minor ghosting on front cover,tight copy.
Published by W.P.Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh
Seller: Makovski Books, Southampton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus Edition. From "The Parlour Book Shelf" Series. Red/gilt/black cloth hardback - wearing/blemished/soiled/bumped. 352pp. + 16 pages of advertisements, including b/w frontispiece. Inside covers/eps heavily browned/blemished. A hint of blemishing/foxing elsewhere. Inscription on fep. Good content. Considering probable age, Fair.
Published by Robert Hale Limited, London, 1953
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. C.W. Bacon (illustrator). First Edition. This is a Good Copy of this book in publisher's green coloured cloth boards with dulled gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has been strengthened by tape to the head and tail of spine.The outer boards are spotted and foxed and with 2 foxing spots to showing to the endpapers.There are NO previous owner's names present.Original edition was in a limited format and published by The Golden Cockerel Press.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness,no loose leaves etc.Illustrated with woodcuts by C.W. Bacon and the large folding map is present at the rear of the book and is in very good order.Uncommon title written by one of the scientists (Sparrman) who sailed with Cook in 1772 on his three year voyage round the World.The book details some thrilling stories of his own adventure of Cook and his men,their supplies and the many places visited.The dust-jacket comes protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 214pp First General Edition [1953].
Published by Robert Hale Limited, 1953
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. C. W. Bacon (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1953, 1st general edition. Octavo. xx, 214pp. Illustrated with woodcuts by C. W. Bacon and a large folding map at rear. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles (faded) to spine. In the printed dust wrapper, minor edge wear, price clipped. In clear plastic protective wrap-around. Contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Scarce.
Published by Hansebooks, 2017
ISBN 10: 3744783049ISBN 13: 9783744783040
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. First Edition thus, as good as new. The Three Famous Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World by Cook. Published by Hansebooks in 2017. Paperback ISBN:9783744783040. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Published by Jaques and Wright, London, 1825
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Volume 2 only of 2. Full leather with gilt bands on the spine, 5 illustrated black and white plates. Good, covers detached, title page and page 1-2 are attached to the front cover, leather on covers worn down, spine head chipped off, pages timetoned with spotting and foxing.
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown., London, 1821
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. frontis portrait, xii, 2 plates, 398pp, vii, 368pp. Covers the First Voyage. Medium wear, tight, plates have some discolouration and small creasing. 1.3 kg.
Published by Folio, pp.218, colophon, The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1944., 1944
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 300 (350) copies printed in Perpetua on mould-made paper. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings, some full-page. Green buckram, gilt leather label, elaborately blocked in gold on the front, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engraved bookplate, just slightly cocked at the spine. A very good copy indeed Sparrman's eye-witness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, was published in Sweden in 1818, but had not previously appeared in English. Peter Barker-Mill's wood-engravings are particularly successful as is the gold-blocking on the binding. (Cockalorum 162).
Published by Longman et al., London, 1821
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. vii, 2 plates, 372pp. viii, 2 plates, 304pp, folding table, plate, vi, plate, 472pp, glossary of the Society Isles, couple of in line illustration. Medium wear, some clipping, discolouration to plates. 1.7 kg.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Folio, 218, [219, colophon] pp. With a folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Original olive buckram, with gilt lettered & decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, a very good copy as issued. § First Edition in English, limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. *An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English. The first English translation of Sparrman's complete narrative of Cook's second voyage, which had originally been published in Sweden in 1802-1818. Bibliography: Holmes 92; Beddie 1284; Davidson, pages 62-63; Spence 1150; USN 23-5.59; Cockalorum 162.
Published by John Tallis & Company, London and New York
Seller: Yes Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light foxing end pages, title page, frontis. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers. Interiors clean and unmarked, very good condition. Text block edges are marbled. Edges are moderately worn. Gilt titles on spines, very good condition. Overall a very nice set. Two volumes. Two fold-out maps present. Undated.
Published by Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1944
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Folio, 218, [219, colophon] pp. With a folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Original olive buckram, with gilt lettered & decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, a very good copy as issued. First Edition in English, limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English. The first English translation of Sparrman's complete narrative of Cook's second voyage, which had originally been published in Sweden in 1802-1818. .
Published by London: John Tallis, No Date (c.1860)., 1860
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition, 2 volumes, 4to., pp. xx, 596, xi, 556, 89 b/w illustrations, 5 full page engravings (including frontispieces), 12 double page maps, 56 b/w illustrations, half-calf boards; p3-4 torn with loss, p.504-44 missing from vol i, duplicate pp.501 from Cook?s voyage to the pacific ocean vol ii, pp. 412-420 missing from vol ii, pp. 417-424 duplicate vol i Cook?s second voyage round the world. Defective copy but maps and engravings complete. Please email for fuller description of maps.
Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1944
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter. [Translated into English by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve]. Pp. 220(last blank)+[2](blank), folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, appendix, notes; f'cap folio; green buckram, with gilt lettered & decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, the cloth slightly marked and rubbed, fore-corners and foot of spine lightly bruised; top edge gilt; some browning of preliminary blank and frontispiece from previously inserted newsclipping [not present]; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1944. First Edition in English, limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. Holmes 92; Beddie 1284; Davidson, pages 62-63; Spence 1150; USN 23-5.59; Cockalorum l62. *An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English.
Published by London: Alexander Hogg, [1784-86], 1784
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition of this omnibus of Cook's voyages. Printed in double columns in "large new Types, constructed on Purpose to comprise much Matter in a little Compass" and issued in 80 sixpenny parts with avowedly philanthropic intentions, Hogg's popular edition helped disseminate knowledge of Cook's discoveries. "An important collection of English voyages. [which] sometimes gives the original accounts, others are edited or abridged versions, and frequently additional material from other sources are added to give scope and depth to the narratives" (Hill). The splendidly verbose title page notes the addition of the expeditions of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and Drake. The first three were included in Hawkesworth's edition of Cook's first voyage, while the accounts of Phipps, Anson, and Drake are reprinted from David Henry's An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators (1773-74). The book is often referred to as "Anderson's Cook", though George William Anderson is most likely a pseudonym calculated to evoke vague identification with William Anderson, the surgeon, and naturalist who accompanied Cook on his second and third voyages. The publisher, Alexander Hogg, a specialist in "Paternoster Row numbers", had a penchant for tripartite pseudonyms. Two additional engraved plates laid in, one of The Queen's Hotel, London, the other, hand-coloured, of a pair of shells. Provenance: with the ownership inscription of Captain Thomas Jellis, Northampton Fencibles, on the head of the first page of text, dated 1799. The Northampton Fencibles were raised in 1794. Jellis appears to have moved to America with his family in 1812, settling in Cartersville, Virginia. His grandson, Captain Thomas Jellis Kirkpatrick served in the Confederate Army and was appointed captain of the Amherst Artillery in July 1861, becoming a major in 1865, commanding the Nelson's Battalion. Beddie 18; Hill 18; Howgego I, C176; Spence p. 26; Parks Collection 104. Folio (376 x 246 mm). Recent sprinkled half calf, marbled boards, to style, red morocco label, bands framed by reeded gilt rolls, foliate lozenge gilt in the compartments. With engraved portrait frontispiece and 156 other plates, maps, and charts including one large folding map showing the track of Cook's voyages. Prelims and endmatter professionally restored, a number of short closed marginal tears some with archival tissue repairs ("A General Chart" repaired and reinserted), occasional marginal loss ("Cook's Strait in New Zealand" with some loss of border and text), some foxing. A good copy.
Published by printed by James Rivington, New York, 1774
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
2 volumes, octavo. (7 11/16 x 4 1/2 inches). 18pp. list of subscribers in vol.I, 6pp. publisher's advertisement for an edition of "Chesterfield's letters". 2 folding engraved frontispieces (one engraved by Paul Revere), 1 folding world map engraved by Bernard Romans. Bound to style in half 18th century calf with 18th century marble paper boards, spine simply gilt in six compartments with morocco labels. The very rare first American edition of Cook's First Voyage, with a plate engraved by Paul Revere and the first world map to be published in America The first volume with 17 pages of subscribers' names, one of the longest lists of subscribers in any American book published before the Revolution. Complete copies of this American piracy are rarely seen on the market: only four copies are listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty years. It is a condensed version of the official London edition which had been published in England in 1773 in three quarto volumes. The London first edition also included a survey of earlier British voyagers in the Pacific, but the present work concentrates almost entirely on the narrative of Cook's voyage. The folding frontispiece to the first volume is by the Revolutionary hero, silversmith and engraver, Paul Revere. It is a version of plate 7 by F. Bartolozzi that is usually found facing p.265 in vol.II of the first English edition. According to Clarence Brigham, Revere worked from a reduced reversed version of this pIate published in The Town and Country Magazine (June, 1773, vol.V, p.313), a copy of which was sent to him by the publisher Rivington (via Henry Knox of Boston) in April 1774. Rivington asked that Revere engrave the image "with all the ability in his power and let it be done as soon as possible" (letter to Knox, dated 8 April 1774). The final result (about fifty per cent smaller than Bartolozzi's original) amply demonstrates the charming naïveté that is such a hallmark of Paul Revere's work. Revere's day book shows that he charged £4-0-0 for the plate (see 3 May 1774 entry) The folding map, as the Wheat & Brun number confirms, is the first World map to be published in America and is the work of another notable figure from the Revolutionary war: the military engineer, cartographer and engraver Bernard Romans. Romans intention was to show the track of Cook, Captain Wallis and Bougainville: most of the map is once again a reduced version of the original map, but in this case it also extends the area covered so that an image of the entire world is included, rather than just the "South Seas". It is bound in vol.I facing the first page of text, and is also the first American map to depict Australia "accurately". The folding frontispiece to the second volume is unsigned, but is a composite of two images that both originate with drawings by Sydney Parkinson, the official draughtsman/artist on the voyage. The image is divided in two vertically: the left side of the plate is of a New Zealander. The original of this image was eventually engraved by T. Charles and published in Parkinson's A Journal of a Voyage (London: 1784) facing p.88. The right side is of two Australian aboriginals. The original of this image was also engraved by T. Charles and in Parkinson's work opposite p.134. Unusually, we know where the paper used in this work came from: Rivington advertised the work on 20 October 1774. "These books are printed upon a paper fabricated by Mr. Christopher Leffingwell, of Norwich in Connecticut, with ink made in Boston, and every part of the labour effected by inhabitants of the city of New-York". The set was priced at 12 shillings half bound and 16 shillings full bound and lettered. Beddie 656; Brigham Paul Revere's Engravings pp 102-105; L. Diamant Bernard Romans pp.29-30; Evans 13324; Holmes 9; Sabin 30936; Streeter Sale 2407; Wheat & Brun Maps and Charts Published in America before 1800 1.
Published by 77; London: printed for H. Hughes, 1785., 1785
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Quarto. Eight volume set. Second editions. With 52 maps charts and plates for the first voyage; 63 for the second voyage; and 24 charts and plates for the third (lacking the atlas volume which contained most of the engravings for the third voyage). Bound in contemporary boards, rebacked in buckram. Bookplates. Scattered foxing and occasional marginal dampstaining. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by London, Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to his Majesty, in the Strand and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1784., 1784
Seller: LIBRAIRIE HÉRODOTE JEAN-LOUIS CECCARINI, Paris, France
Association Member: ILAB
Book First Edition
Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook, 649-1226-1543-1962 (Kippis) et 3596 (portrait)-4510 (pour les portraits en suppl. dans l atlas). Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85. Hill, 783-358 (pour la première édition) et 361. Holmes, 5-24 (pour la première édition)-47-69. O Reilly, Tahiti, 433. Rosove, Antarctica, 77. A3. Édition originale officielle à l exception du deuxième voyage en 3e édition (souvent préférée à la première édition. Elle contient la table générale des planches pour les trois voyages). Collection complète des trois voyages de Cook, à laquelle on a ajouté la vie du célèbre navigateur par Andrew Kippis. Complet de ses 202 planches gravées hors texte et du portrait du capitaine Cook en frontispice du deuxième voyage (52, 63 et 87 pl.). *Exceptionnelle reliure en cuir de renne russe, dont le prestige tient beaucoup à l histoire insolite de sa découverte et de son sauvetage d une épave oubliée au fond des eaux pendant près de deux siècles ! Le brigantin danois « Die Frau Metta Catharina von Flensburg », en provenance de Saint-Pétersbourg pour Gênes avec une cargaison de chanvre et de peaux, s était échoué dans le détroit de Plymouth en 1786 ; et ce n est qu en 1973 que des plongeurs archéologues (the British Sub-Aqua Club), en quête d un autre navire, l ont découvert par hasard. Cet événement a donné lieu à une spectaculaire vente aux enchères, où relieurs et libraires se sont portés acquéreurs d un ensemble de peaux de première qualité, dont celle qui a servi à relier, avec une grande maîtrise, notre exemplaire signé du relieur canadien Courtland Benson. Le remarquable et surprenant état de conservation des ballots de peaux que le brigantin contenait (certaines de la taille de l animal lui-même, avec la queue et la tête, et marquées des initiales du tanneur) est dû à la méthode russe traditionnelle de tannage qui, en trempant le cuir dans un bain d écorces de bouleau, le rendait résistant à la moisissure et lui vaut une réputation sans égale auprès des bibliophiles, surtout anglais. La peau du renne très résistante, souple et agréable au toucher se prête très bien aux ornements tels que les dorures ou les incrustations, et son séjour biséculaire dans la boue noire où il a été découvert n a fait que renforcer sa solidité. Sa couleur varie du rouge bordeaux épais à une couleur terre de Sienne plus légère, comme pour notre exemplaire (Cf. The Wreck of the Metta Catharina, Garbett G. & Skelton I. 1987 et The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Blackwell, Oxford 2010, vol. 39, no2, pp. 235-257 [23 pages (article)]). Very nice set. Complet set of the best editions. "Now, this book has quite an amazing story : In 1786, the Die Frau Metta Catherina brigantine left St. Petersbourg with a cargo of hemp and leather. The latter was no ordinary leather, but Russia leather its typical crosshatched grain, tanned with willow bark and curried with birch oil what the New York Times magazine calls a top-of-the-line luxury. This leather was renown for its unique perfume, its resistance to water and, as it seems, for being insect-repellent. Captain Twedt who was the skipper of the Die Frau Metta Catherina back in 1786, was aiming to Genoa. But he never went beyond Plymouth Sound. Torn from her anchorage by a sudden storm, the Metta Catherina eventually sank to a depth of about 100 feet. The vessel and cargo entirely lost, read a contemporary article; crew saved. The cargo, including rolls of Russia leather, quietly remained underwater for the following 187 years, until some members of a local diving club discovered the ship. Brought to the surface, the rolls of leather proved to be somehow well preserved. Mr. Brown, who happened to commercialize them, stated : ''The hides on the outer edges of the rolls, as well as others that were disturbed as the vessel sank, had all deteriorated badly. The inner hides in most of the rolls were in a remarkable state of preservation, protecte.
Published by London: Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990., 1990
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Folio,738 copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts, colour printed a la poupee in up to 17 colours with additional watercolour touches from the original plates after Sydney Parkinson, Frederick Polydore Nodder, John Frederick Miller, James Miller, John Cleverly and Thomas Burgis; the Supplement with five copper-engraved plates in titled window mounts; the Catalogue with eight copper-engraved uncolored duplicate plates. 35 solander boxes (including Supplement), broadsheet folio [29" x 22 1/2"] and one volume Catalogue, folio. The Florilegium and Supplement in 101 original cloth-backed portfolios contained within 35 dark-green cloth-covered solander boxes by G. Ryder and Co.; the Catalogue bound in half dark green morocco, top edge gilt. Some blemishes to the window mounts but not affecting the images. The first complete edition of the engravings after Sydney Parkinson's magnificent drawings, made in the course of Captain Cook's First Voyage, during which Banks collected over 800 previously unknown specimens. This is number one of 100 numbered copies. Although some 743 plates after drawings by Parkinson and others were engraved under Banks' supervision by 18 engravers over a period of 13 years, and manuscript descriptions of the specimens had been prepared by Daniel Solander, Banks' ambition to publish the drawings made by Sydney Parkinson during the Endeavour's circumnavigation was never realised. On Banks's death, these plates were bequeathed to the British Museum, where they remain. The first publication of a substantial selection of the plates was in 1900-1905, when monochrome lithographic edition was produced. In 1974 the Lion and Unicorn Press published 30 uncoloured engravings in an edition limited to 100 copies. The complete set is published in 35 parts with all plates and accompanying letterpress contained in 35 green cloth covered Solander boxes with printed labels. The breakdown of the set is as follows: Parts 1-15 Australia 337 plates Part 16 Brazil 23 plates Parts 17-18 Java 30 plates Part 19 Madeira 11 plates Parts 20-27 New Zealand 183 plates Parts 28-31 The Society Islands 89 plates Parts 32-34 Tierra del Fuego 65 plates Supplement 5 plates In the preface to the accompanying Catalogue J. G. Studholme writes " finally I must thank the Master Printer, Edward Egerton-Williams, whose experience in colour printing led directly to the decision to print and publish the Florilegium in colour and whose dedication, technical skills and attention to detail has resulted in the production, over a period of more than ten years, of 86,000 perfect colour engravings. In the early stages of this publication, a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Botany at a Dutch University, comparing Banks' Florilegium with the University's many acquisitions of treasures from the Orient remarked that, for him, it represented a supreme example of eighteenth-century European civilisation. I can think of no higher compliment".