1ST EDITION. VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH PROTECTIVE FILM. ATTRACTIVE ILLUSTRATION ON FRONT BOARD. SOME FOXING TO FIRST 2 PAGES AND PAGE EDGES. ACCOUNT OF CYCLE RIDE FROM LONDON TO KHIVA. SCARCE.
VOLUMES I & II OF THREE VOLUMES. RECOLLECTIONS SKETCHES AND REFLECTIONS MADE DURING A TOUR IN THE EAST IN 1832-1833. SOME FOXING TITLE PAGE PORTRAIT. RUBBED AND WORN LEATHER SPINES GREEN BOARDS. THIRD EDITION REVISED AND CORRECTED.
FIRST EDITION 31pp VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS ROUGH EDGES TO THE PAGES BUT VERY GOOD. AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW TO THE OFFICIAL REPORT ORDERED BY GEORGE 11 INTO THE FAILURE OF THE EXPEDITION MOUNTED AGAINST THE FRENCH ATLANTIC COAST.
SECOND EDITION VOLUME 2 (OF TWO) ONLY. 258 PAGES FOLDING PLATE OF DEEP SEA EQUIPMENT CARD COVERS (WORN) UNTRIMMED EDGES REMAINS OF BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTEDOWN BUT A VERY CLEAN COPY.
GEORGE ANSON LATE LORD ANSON COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF A SQUADRON OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS SENT UPON AN EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH SEAS COMPILED FROM HIS PAPERS AND MATERIALS BY RICHARD WALTER M.A. CHAPLAIN TO HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP THE CENTURION IN THAT EXPEDITION. TWO VOLUMES CROWN 8vo FULL ELEGANT MOROCCO BINDINGS IN TAN GILT BY PAUL DELRUE FOLDING MAP. A VERY HANDSOME SET.
SECOND EDITION THREE VOLUMES. VOLS. 1 AND 11 WRITTEN BY COOK VOL. 111 BY JAMES KING. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION (lxxxix); LIST OF PLATES( PLATES NOT PRESENT); 421 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGE; CONTENTS; 548 PAGES. VOLUME 3: CONTENTS 558 PAGES INCLUDING 7 APPENDICES. ALL VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. AN EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN SET. THE TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 3 APPEARS TO BE A PHOTOCOPY AS IS THE FOLLOWING PAGE. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES OF VOLS. 1 AND 11 BUT OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE.
FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES. THIS SET CONTAINS THE FULL TEXT BUT NO PLATES. VOLUME 1: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; LIST OF PLATES( PLATES NOT PRESENT); 378 PAGES. VOLUME 2: TITLE PAGES; CONTENTS; 396 PAGES. BOTH VOLUMES REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. VOLUME 1 IS GENERALLY CLEAN WITH OCCASIONAL FOXING. IN VOL. 1 PAGE 375 HAS A SMALL HOLE WITH LOSS OF ABOUT FOUR WORDS OF TEXT. VOLUME 2 HAS EVIDENCE OF WATER STAINING UP TO PAGE 160 (MAINLY IN THE WIDE MARGINS WITH LITTLE IN THE TEXT) THEREAFTER A BRIGHT COPY. OVERALL A VERY GOOD CLEAN AND ATTRACTIVE SET OF THIS SCARCE WORK WITHOUT THE PLATES AND OFFERED AT AN ATTRACTIVE PRICE. PICTURES AVAILABLE.
FIRST EDITION VOLUME 2 ONLY (OF THREE). THIS WAS COOK’S FIRST VOYAGE UNDERTAKEN IN THE DOLPHIN SWALLOW AND ENDEAVOUR. REBOUND IN MARBLED BOARDS WITH STIFF CREAM PAPER SPINES PAPER LABELS NEW ENDPAPERS. BINDING IS TIGHT. CONTAINS TITLE PAGE LIST OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 410 PAGES. THERE ARE NO PLATES IN THIS VOLUME. A VERY CLEAN COPY WITH SOME EVIDENCE OF WORM HOLES AT THE FOOT OF THE LAST 30 PAGES. PICTURES AVAILABE.
WITH A TOUR THROUGH PART OF THE NORTHERN COUNTIES IN THE YEARS 1773 AND 1774. FIRST EDITION REBOUND IN BOARDS LEATHER SPINE WITH 19 FOLDING PLATES. A VERY GOOD COPY.
