Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 133

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
COOK, JAMES. A Collection of Voyages Round the World . . . Containing a Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages. 160 folding engraved plates and maps. 6 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, covers detached; scattered foxing of text, engraved matter generally clean, Volume 1 front free endpaper secured to front cover with cellotape, margins of plate facing page 960 in Volume 3 trimmed, Volume 6 lacks final leaf of binder's directions. London: A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1790

Additional Details

"Another edition of George W. Anderson's 'A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world' . . . The imprint is false; probably printed at York for Wilson, Spence and Mawman" (ESTC). Beddie 39; Forbes 187. Bound in Volume 1 of this set are the frontispiece and title from an undated edition published by Alexander Hogg.