11-10-200111-10-2001
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2109Boston
November 10, 2001 10:00 AMCalender
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COOK

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$9,775$8,500
Auction: Sale #2109 - 2109Location: BostonDate / Time: November 10, 2001 10:00AM

Description:

COOK, JAMES, CAPTAIN (1728-1779) COOK'S VOYAGES: comprising seven volumes, 4to and one volume, folio, first editions, London, 1773-1785, uniformly bound in gilt highlighted tree calf; (first voyage),HAWKESWORTH, JOHN, An Account of the Voyage inSouthern Hemisphere, 1773, three volumes, fifty two engraved maps and charts; (second voyage),COOK, CAPT. JAMES, A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World, volume I only); (third volume),COOK, CAPT. JAMES, Voyage to the Pacific Oceanfor making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, four volumes including the Atlas Volume, (plate counts available),together with eighteen contemporary titles relating to Capt. James Cook and his voyages.
Estimate $8,000-12,000

Keywords

James Cook, the World, London