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Lot 69
COOK, [JAMES], Captain The Three Voyages of Captain Cook, Round the World.
London & New York: John Tallis & Company, [circa 1860]. Two volumes. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards, all edges marbled. 10 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (27 x 18.5 cm); xx, 596; xi, 556 pp.; 12 fine engraved double-page maps with original hand color in outline and vignettes, 5 plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in text, additional engraved vignette frontispiece in volume one. Boards a bit rubbed, upper hinges cracked in each volume, occasional minor surface soiling and staining, some maps with scrollwork minutely trimmed during binding not affecting map images, bookplates and ownership inscriptions of R. M. Pell in each volume.
"A work of extraordinary research, reference, and completeness upon colonial matters and policy" (Hocken). The maps include: "The World"; "Australia"; "Victoria, Fort Phillip"; "New Zealand"; "Polynesia, Islands in the Pacific Ocean"; "Part of South Australia"; "Islands in the Indian Ocean"; "New South Wales"; "Van Diemen's Island or Tasmania"; "Malay Archipelago or East India Islands"; "Falkland Islands and Patagonia"; and "Cape Colony". The plates include: "Captain James Cook"; "Sir Joseph Banks"; "The Death of Captain Cook"; "Rio Janeiro"; and "St. Salvador". Ferguson 12306; Hocken, p. 56; Mendelssohn III:269-70; TPL 3009. See Sabin 44908.
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