Captain James Cook : The Greatest Discoverer

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