Research Catalog
Captain James Cook : the greatest discoverer : the Robert and Mary Parks collection / Hordern House.
- 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.
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Request in advance | G420.C65 C37 2008 | Off-site |
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- 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
- 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