Cook, Captain James; Beaglehole, J. C.

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

Pp. [xii]+22+[6](notes); roy. 4to; qr. oasis goatskin, spine lettered in black, brown cloth sides; in original cloth slip-case, slightly marked and lightly foxed; uncut; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, 1979. Limited edition of 50 numbered copies, printed by hand on an Albion press with hand-made white wove paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England. *Published to mark the bicentenary of the death of Captain Cook and originally presented as a lecture, under the same title, given by Cook's editor and biographer, J. C. Beaglehole OM. With an example of the equally rare hand-printed prospectus loosely inserted. Item #166222

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