ISBN: 9780949367334 - the florilegium of captain cook's first voyage to australia 1768-1771 (3 résultats)

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Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Book in good condition. Pages clean. Binding, pages, cover - firm. Some light tanning on outside page edges. Cover has some moderate shelf-scuffing marks and back bottom corner of cover has a minor crease. Quarto paperback with numerous colour and B&W illustrations, and maps. A 200-page catalogue providing a complete visual reference to the 738 engravings from the original Banksian copperplates, featuring botanical illustrations by Sydney Parkinson from the Endeavour voyage. This volume is widely regarded as a significant documentation of the botanical specimens gathered by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, which were engraved between 1771 and 1784 but not published during Banks' lifetime.…

Etat : Very Good. Wraps are firm, text block clean, without highlights/underlining or markings. Some rubbing/curling to wraps. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.