The Banks/Cook Portfolio
by Carter, Harold B.; David, Andrew C.E.; (Gilbert, Pamela - editor)
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Melbourne and London: Hill House Publishers, 1990. Limited edition of 500 copies only. Illustrated, folio, pp 112, green cloth, a very good copy. The first trade edition, without the brochure of other illustrations. [Comprises two major essays - "Sir Joseph Banks as the Father of Australia", and "Captain Cook's Second Voyage and His Chart of the Southern Hemisphere", together with two appendices - "Franz Andreas Bauer" and "The Banks Copper Engraving of the Great Pacific Ocean". With two portaits of Banks, two botanical plates (by L'Heritier and Franz Bauer), 10 plates of charts or maps, and seven other plates.]. First Edition. Cloth. As New.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009176
- Title
- The Banks/Cook Portfolio
- Author
- Carter, Harold B.; David, Andrew C.E.; (Gilbert, Pamela - editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hill House Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne and London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- merino.sheep. navigation. history. kangaroo. australia. instruments.sextant. chronometer. compass.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Science; Botanical Illustration; Maritime;
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