THE JOURNAL OF H.M.S. ENDEAVOUR 1768-1771.
Preface by Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Pp. 528(last blank), many of the facsimile pages printed in red & black, 40 plates within pagination (6 coloured), black & white text figures (one folding), pictorial endpapers, full page map, index; thick f'cap. folio; half calf, spine decorated and ruled in gilt between raised bands, with gilt lettered green leather title label, dark green buckram boards, upper board decorated with a gilt vignette of the Endeavour; all edges sprinkled green; ribbon marker; within dark green slipcase with printed paper title label; Genesis Press/Rigby Limited, Guildford, Surrey/Adelaide, 1977. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. *The introductory material includes A Note on the Admiralty Copy of Cook's Journal of the Endeavour, plus sections on Joseph Banks in the Niger and the Endeavour and Banks's Artists in the Endeavour by A. M. Lysaght. Also contains a biography of Cook by Stephen Walters, a section on Daniel Solander by J. Braybrooke Marshall, and Cook, Green and the Transit of Venus by Patrick Moore. Item #183957
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