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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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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