Cook Captain James: Signed (7 results)
The Last Voyage | Captain Cook's Lost Diary [Twice Signed]
Innes, Hammond [Ralph Hammond Innes, CBE (15 July 1913 - 10 June 1998) was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books]. Captain James Cook FRS (7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
Published by Published by Collins 14 St. James's Place, London First Edition . 1978. 1978
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
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Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original chestnut brown covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt silhouette of Captain Cook to the front cover, colour end paper maps. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 254 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrappe…r with sun fading down the spine, not price clipped. SIGNED dedication by the author to the second front free end paper 'R. S. Snow - Another one for your collection! My best wishes R. Hammond Innes'. Also SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Hammond Innes'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0002214458 INNES, Hammond (1913-1998).
Published by Limited Editions Club, New York 1957
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 310 pages, 28.5 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 774 of 1500 signed by Ingleton and Douglas A. Dunstan (who designed the color frontispiece after Flaxman). Laid-in are the Monthly LEC Letter, a four page LEC brief biography of Cook by A. Grenfell Price, "From Farm to Fame," and "Number Twelve" LEC note stating this wo…rk is the final volume of the Twenty-fifth series. NEWMAN & WICHE 279. Quarter kangaroo skin, tapa decorated sides. Near fine in very good slightly sunned slipcase. Ingleton, Geoffrey C. (illustrator).
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Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerCOOK, Captain James. The Explorations of.in the Pacific as Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779. Edited by A. Grenfell Price and Illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. 4to. Orig. calf-backed decorated boards in publisher's slipcase. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. Limited to 1,500 copies printed at the Griffin P…ress. Signed by the printer, Douglas Dunstan, and the illustrator. Spine slightly rubbed, else a very good copy. Signed.
Published by Saint Clement Danes 1774
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Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, , United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Also signed on the reverse by [A.C. Cuddon?] AND the Earl of Rochford [William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford (1717 O.S. -1781) courtier, diplomat and statesman.]. TWO PAGES, sm. fol., fold marks, edges stained, discreet repairs, text clear and complete, commencing "To the Kings most Excellent Majesty | The Hum…ble Petition of Thomas Short [] That your Petitioner hath invented a method of making Reflecting Telescopes with more than two Speculums to be used by the same person at the same time [] or enabling two Persons to view the same object at the same time []". SEE IMAGE for full (signed) text. One the verso, [A.C. Cuddon?] gives a statement about Short Swearing on 14 March 1774. Followed by a signed statement by the Earl of Rochford commencing "His Majesty is graciously pleased to refer this Petition to Mr. Attorney or Mr. Solicitor General to consider thereof, and report his Opinion what may be properly done therein, whereupon His Majesty will declare His further Pleasure. [signed] Rochford". Note: Bennet Woodcroft, "Titles of Patents of Invention: Chronologically Arranged []", (1854), p.194: "[27 April 1774; 1069] A grant unto THOMAS SHORT, of the parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the county of Middlesex , optician , of his new invented method of making reflecting telescopes with more than two speculums , to be used by the same person [.]".
Published by Early 19th century, Germany
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerRed pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving A Woman of Oonalaska from Cook's third voyage, on paper board. Titled and signed below the image. 21 1/2 x 16 inches. Chipped in lower margin with some loss to the title, tear into the image Red pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving A Woman of Oonalaska from Coo…k's third voyage, on paper board. Titled and signed below the image. 21 1/2 x 16 inches. Signed.
Published by Early 19th century, Germany
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerRed pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving A Woman of Nootka Sound from Cook's third voyage, on paper board. Titled and signed below the image. 21 x 16 inches. Chipped in left margin with some loss, tear into the image Red pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving A Woman of Nootka Sound from Cook's third vo…yage, on paper board. Titled and signed below the image. 21 x 16 inches. Signed.
Published by Early 19th century, Germany
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerRed pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving Man of Kamtschatka from Cook's third voyage, on laid paper. Titled and signed below the image. 23 x 18 1/2 inches. Hard horizontal crease through the image, edge tears Red pen-and-ink drawing by Buchler after the engraving Man of Kamtschatka from Cook's third voyage, on laid… paper. Titled and signed below the image. 23 x 18 1/2 inches. Signed.
