Item #14248 A Narrative of Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook with an Account of his Life during the Previous and Intervening Periods, complete in 2 vols. Andrew Kippis.

A Narrative of Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook with an Account of his Life during the Previous and Intervening Periods, complete in 2 vols.

New York: Leavitt & Allen. Hardcover. A smaller 12mo edition, ca 1880, nicely bound in decorated brown gilt cloth. Holmes notes in his Bibliography that this is..."The frankest and most reliable of all contemporary accounts (of Cook's Life & Voyages)". Two volumes bound in one, 220pp and 224pp. 4.75 x 3.5", all edges marbled. Original brown decorative gilt cloth with ornate floral motifs, gilt title at spine. Slt. rubbed, spine a trifle darkened. Text block evenly browned. Pleasant overall. Item #14248

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