AMER WINTER 2018
The live portion of this session begins on Thursday, February 8, 2018.
NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, UNDERTAKEN AND PERFORMED BY ROYAL AUTHORITY...CAPTAIN COOK'S 1ST, 2ND, 3RD AND LAST VOYAGES AND OTHER ROYAL VOYAGES INCLUDING LT. WILLIAM BLIGH'S VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA, COMMODORE BYRON'S VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD, CAPT. CARATERET'S VOYAGE OF THE SOUTHERN OCEANS, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S VOYAGES, INCLUDING A NEW AND COMPLETE GENUINE HISTORY OF TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY WARVILLE, 1788 AND OTHERS.This massive text is 38-1/2cm (15") x 24cm (9-1/2"), 9cm thick (3-3/4") with over 1000 pages, 90 full page copper plate engravings and a fine fold-out map by Thomas Condor, being a new map of North America, published by Alexander Hogg in 1794, London. SIZE: As noted. CONDITION: Fair. Leather spine appears to be a very old restoration, broken hinges and a few signatures separated, heavily worn corners, heavily scuffed, soiled. Most pages and plates are solid and complete with light soiling and foxing. Pages near the end and frontis are most soiled, stained and some reductions. Frontis plate of Captain Cook is missing upper left-hand corner. Other plates are complete as sampled but not collated. 52862-1 JGS (1,500-2,500)