Research Catalog

Title

Captain James Cook : the greatest discoverer : the Robert and Mary Parks collection / Hordern House.

Author

Hordern House (Firm)

Publication

Potts Point, N.S.W. : Hordern House Rare Books, 2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Parks, Robert P.
• Parks, Mary.

Description

1 v. (unpaged) : ill., facsim., maps, ports.; 29 cm.

Summary

"The Captain James Cook collection of Bob and Mary Anne Parks is a landmark of its kind, and represents the finest such collection offered. The catalogue includes highlights such as: an extraordinary original letter by Cook, entirely in his own hand, asking for the return of a press-ganged sailor; Joseph Banks's engraved map of Cooks first voyage, the first map of the east coast of Australia, and never before offered for sale; magnificent engraved portraits of Cook, Banks, Omai and others; an original manuscript map from Cooks surveying of Newfoundland; samples of genuine tapa cloth in the contemporary books of Alexander Shaw and Anders Sparrman; all of the major recorded engravings of the death of Captain Cook."--Global Books in Print.

Alternative Title

• Robert and Mary Parks collection
• Parks collection of Captain James Cook
• Robert and Mary Anne Parks collection

Subject

• Cook, James, 1728-1779 > Travel
• Hordern House (Firm) > Catalogs
• Voyages and travels

Genre/Form

• Exploration literature – 18th century.
• Catalogs
• Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Beginnings : Newfoundland -- First voyage 1768-1771 -- Sir Joseph Banks -- Second voyage 1772-1775 -- Omai -- Third voyage 1776-1780 -- Death of Cook -- Collected voyages -- Memorials.

ISBN

• 9781875567539 (hbk.)
• 1875567534 (hbk.)

OCLC

240267586

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library