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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Printed for J Cooke 17 Paternoster Row. Very Good. 1790. Hardcover. Volume 1 only No date, presumed 1790, iv + 460pp, lacking all plates and maps, title page creased, odd mark in text. Smartly bound in recent brown cloth, leather spine label, new endpapers; Quarto .

Printed for C. Cook. London. [1787?]. 2 volumes. Large folio.. pp. (ii), 460; (ii), (461)-970, (ii) Directions to Binder. 22 engraved maps, some folding, by THOMAS BOWEN and 90 engraved plates. Lacking 9 maps [New Discoveries : World : World Chart : Africa : Europe : South America : Great Britain : Asia : Russian Empire] and both frontispieces and 1 plate, with 2 plates erroneously listed. Contemporary calf worn but joints intact, final text leaf to v.I lacking lower half, one other text leaf torn across without loss, a few corners torn, 2 plates damaged with loss at the top margin, occasional marginal tear and loss, offered as a good reading copy.

Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row, 1789-1790. 2nd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Massive folio. Circa 1790. Frontis, 108 plates of 112. Lacking 1 map and 3 plates. 70 plates with double engravings, 17 single engraving plates, 9 single leaf maps, 12 folding maps. Complete in one volume. 990 pages in double columns. Contemporary full calf. Binding is good, front board detached. Corners bumped. Scattered foxing throughout, affecting a few plates, tanning to margins, a few pages have ink blots. Tear to pages 595 and 827, affecting text. The front engraved frontispiece is torn, lacking almost half, with the remainder wrinkled. Minor loss to the corner margin of the title. Single leaf maps are in very good condition. Maps are in fair condition with heavy wrinkling to fold, tears; The Chart map, maps of Africa, North America, Italy, Europe and England are in extremely poor condition with heavy tearing and wrinkling. The engraving plates have old tears, restored by an earlier hand. Sold by… Read More

London: J. Cooke, 1787 Undated, but 1787-1788. 2 vols. Elephant Folio. original full calf gilt, spine labels (rubbed & worn, rebacked with original spines laid-down, hinges slackening, cloth tape strengthening to hinges, both volumes, some chipping to leather, amateurish repairs, internally clean & complete); pp. [iv], 1-460, with frontispiece, 94 plates (full-page, 1/2 page &1/4 page) on 51 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 1 full page; [ii (title, last blank)], 461-990 (page 663 erroneously labelled 635), [4 (list of Subscribers), misbound between p.988 & 989], 2 [Directions to the Binder for placing the cuts]), with 70 plates (full-page & 1/2 page) on 39 sheets, 6 folding maps/charts + 10 full page (see Alan Frost in La Trobe Journal No. 8, October 1971 for a history of the book, highlighting differences in content and pagination between editions). Very heavy set (9 kg), additional postage may be required for international and domestic delivery. A good copy of an early issue,… Read More

London: C. Cooke, 1789. 2nd or 3rd edition. Hardcover. Likely to be an original subscriber's copy, listed as "Wilson - Crown Court, Broad St.", likely to be "John Wilson" whose red gilt leather ownership label is mounted into the front board, with special blind tooled lines surrounding it. A second or third edition, published between 1789 & 1791, according to research by Alan Frost published in the LaTrobe Journal of the State Library of Victoria, No. 8, 1971. A very bright unsophisticated copy of this work, which has become increasingly scarce. Ferguson 59 describes a 1 volume edition & cites only the Mitchell Library copy. Many of the illustrations were derived from Cook's Voyages, and were the most generally available representations of the natives of the Pacific Northwest, Tasmania, New Zealand, Hawaii & the Pacific accessible to the public at the time. It is these contemporary images which make this work scarce as so many have been broken up. Folio. Frontispiece, title page, (verso blank),… Read More