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a few imprints trimmed, a few folding plates with reinforcement to folds on verso or with closed tears along folds, reinforcement in gutter to “A Fiatooka” plate in atlas volume. A very good set. ¶ Beddie 650, 1216, 1552; Books on Ice I.6; Hill 782, 358, 361 (last for first edition); Howgego I C173–6; NMM, Voyages & Travel , 577, 586; Printing and the Mind of Man 223 (second voyage); Rosove 77.A1 (second voyage); Sabin 16245, 16250. £37,500 [138403] 31 COOK, James – KIPPIS, Andrew. The Life of Captain James Cook. London: G. Nicol and G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1788 First edition of the first thorough biography of Cook, compiled from Admiralty sources. Kippis’s account gives a well-balanced overview of Cook’s whole life, with the three voyages covered in great narrative depth, and includes Samwell’s account of Cook’s death. The work was prepared with help from Cook’s contemporaries and family, was reprinted numerous times, and remains an authoritative source. Quarto (289 × 223 mm). Modern boards to style with printed paper label, edges sprinkled blue. Frontispiece portrait. A little rubbed and soiled, frontispiece and title page foxed with lighter foxing elsewhere, 2 short closed tears to title (without loss) with one neatly taped on verso. A very good copy. ¶ Beddie 32; Forbes 149; Hill 935; Holmes 69; Kroepelien 647. £1,750 [70808]
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3 works in 9 volumes, 8 quarto text volumes (297 × 228 mm) and folio atlas of plates (529 × 397 mm). Contemporary marbled calf (first five text volumes) and polished calf (latter three text volumes), all uniformly rebacked, folio volume in modern half calf to style, twin blue spine labels, gilt capstan and fouled anchor devices in compartments, marbled endpapers. With all plates, maps and plans as called for; two additional proof plates and portrait of Cook. Ownership signature of one K. H. Hermes dated 1874 on initial binder’s blank of vols. I and II, the signature apparently continental; bookplate of James Lenox William Naper (1791–1868), MP for Weobley 1813–1818, on front pastedown of vols. IV and V; contemporary ownership signature on title of vol. IV bleached out. Bindings recornered, light rubbing and surface abrasion, atlas volume with joints a little split and wear at extremities, all holding firm. Contents with sporadic foxing or browning, slight peripheral staining in vols I and III, generally clean, leaves in sig. H in vol. II bound out of sequence. Plates with
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