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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  32
• Lot Description:
  Cook. Kippis, Andrew. The Life of Captain James Cook
  Octavo, without half-title, calf of the period, worn. Dublin, H. Chamberlaine et al., 1788.
• Notes:
  The rare Dublin edition of Kippis’s great biography of Cook, the first biography of the explorer. This Dublin edition was published immediately after the London edition and, as is often the case with the Dublin piracies, it is much rarer than the original. Kippis had access to Admiralty sources as well as documents belonging to Joseph Banks, and attempted a full account of Cook’s public life. He includes a long account of Cook’s death from Samwell’s rare pamphlet (which Kippis had helped to be published): “I procured its publication, that, if any objections should be made to it, I might be able to notice them in my own work. As the narrative hath continued for more than two years unimpeached and uncontradicted, I esteem myself fully authorised to insert it in this place, as containing the most complete and authentic account of the melancholy catastrophe, which, at Owhyee, befell our illustrious navigator and Commander ...”. Beddie, 34 (in error, corrected by Forbes); Forbes, 152; Hill 2, 936, Kroepelien, 648.
• Estimate:
  A$400 - 600
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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