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Captain Cook in Australia, Captain Cook in New Zealand (2 volumes )
by REED, A.W. (Ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Rippleside, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1969. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Very neat, clean copies. First impression. Two companion volumes in publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. 192 and 262 pages profusely illustrated with half-tone plates, line drawings, charts, and a large foldout chart in each volume redrawn from Cook's original maps.Top edge on NZ volume spotty. The dustjackets have light rubbing and creasing to edges, a few very small closed tears. These volumes bring together Cook's journals of his voyages to the east coast of New Holland, Van Dieman's Land and New Zealand. These journals have been edited and annnoted to provide an interesting, important reference.
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- Bookseller
- Sad Paradise Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709011
- Title
- Captain Cook in Australia, Captain Cook in New Zealand (2 volumes )
- Author
- REED, A.W. (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.H. & A.W. Reed
- Place of Publication
- Wellington
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- EXPLORATION AUSTRALIA CAPTAIN JAMES COOK NEW HOLLAND VAN DIEMAN'S LAND NEW ZEALAND
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australia;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
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