Captain Cook's Journal during His First Voyage Round the World Made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original Mss.
London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
Price: $450.00
About the item
First Wharton edition. Frontispiece portrait, 4 folding map and charts, 4 plates including two manuscript facsimiles, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear as issued. lvi, 400 pp. 4to. Publisher's green cloth, spine lettered gilt, facsimile signature of Cook in gilt to upper cover. Some soiling to boards, hinges cracked, leaves toned, title page working loose, very good. Beddie 683. Provenance: W.K. Bixby (bookplate); Missouri Historical Society (presentation stamp from Bixby and a few other discrete stamps; bookplate).
Item #311005
