CAPTAIN COOK AND HAWAII. A narrative.
With an Introduction by Sir Maurice Holmes. Pp. [vi]+xiv(last blank)+42, frontispiece portrait plus 4 plates (1 folding), the title and 5 decorative initials printed in red, title page vignette printed in grey; f'cap. 4to; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, silhouette of David Samwell in white on upper board, the boards a trifle sprung; uncut and partly unopened; plain dust wrapper, faintly soiled, with tiny hole to back panel near backstrip; endpapers and fore-edges of leaves lightly browned; David Magee/Francis Edwards, Ltd., San Francisco/London, 1957. Edition limited to 750 copies, printed by Lawton Kennedy. *Contemporary account of Cook's death, reprinted from the original English edition of 1786. Samwell served as surgeon's mate to the Resolution, and later as surgeon on the Discovery. Item #166252
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