An Abridgement of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. Including an Abridgement of Captain Furneaux's Narrative…To which is added a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole…And an Extract from Forster's Introduction…. The Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
An Abridgement of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. Including an Abridgement of Captain Furneaux's Narrative…To which is added a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole…And an Extract from Forster's Introduction…. The Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF | Libri antichi e moderni | Cook Captain James
An Abridgement of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. Including an Abridgement of Captain Furneaux's Narrative…To which is added a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole…And an Extract from Forster's Introduction…. The Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF
An Abridgement of Captain Cook's First and Second Voyages. Including an Abridgement of Captain Furneaux's Narrative…To which is added a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole…And an Extract from Forster's Introduction…. The Fourth Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN, CRISP COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF | Libri antichi e moderni | Cook Captain James
Metodi di Pagamento
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Dettagli
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 1788
- Autore
- Cook Captain James
- Editori
- Printed for G. Kearsley,
- Soggetto
- travel, exploration, polar, captain cook, james cook, furneaux, commordore phipps, lord mulgrave, hms resolution, hms endeavour
Descrizione
8vo., Fourth Edition, with engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates, some light offsetting to title; contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, new red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, an unusually bright, clean, crisp copy in sympathetically restored period binding. This account is extracted from the quarto edition. It covers the First Voyage (HMS ENDEAVOUR 1768-1771), the Second Voyage (HMS RESOLUTION 1772-1775), Captain Furneaux's Narrative, Phipp's Narrative, an extract from Forster's Introduction to his History of Northern Discoveries on the Progress of Navigation, and an expanded Index. Complete with Index and publisher's catalogue (continuously paginated). VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Beddie [NSW] 30.
