The Captain James Cook collection of Bob and Mary Ann Parks is a landmark of its kind, and represents the finest such collection offered.
The catalogue includes highlights such as:
- An extraordinary original letter by Cook, entirely in his own hand, asking for the return of a press-ganged sailor;
- Joseph Banks engraved map of Cooks first voyage, the first map of the east coast of Australia, and never before offered for sale;
- Magnificent engraved portraits of Cook, Banks, Omai and others;
- An original manuscript map from Cooks surveying of Newfoundland;
- Samples of genuine tapa cloth in the contemporary books of Alexander Shaw and Anders Sparrman;
- All of the major recorded engravings of the death of Captain Cook.
Hardback : 176 pages
SKU : P13853