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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  Bethunes at Webb's Historical Photography and Rare Books
• Sale Date:
  20 Feb 2012 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  269
• Lot Description:
  The life of Captain James Cook.
  1st ed. London : Printed for G Nicol and G G J and J Robinson, 1788. Page size: 295 x 235mm. xvi, 527p. Frontispiece. Beddie 32. Blind- and gold-tooled half calf/paper-covered boards. Later marbled endpapers and blanks. Wear to head of spine. Bumping to corners. Rubbing and soiling to boards. Sporadic foxing and soiling to contents, especially affecting frontispiece and first and last pages. Tidy repairs to page 289/290. The first biography of Cook and the standard reference for more than a century after its publication. Reproduces 'The Morai, an ode' by Miss Helen Maria Williams. A pleasing copy. Binding FA to G. Contents G.
• Maker:
  Andrew Kippis
• Estimate:
  NZ$2,000 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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