The Life of Captain James Cook

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VG, 1834, 4 pls, New Edition. In black full calf, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge blind stamped to upper cover, corners & edges bumped & worn a little. Spine, gilt title & tooling, edges & joints a little worn. Internally, frontis, [3], [1], 2-170 pp, 4 pls (B&W), ink signature to fpd & p1 (Rich & Robert Sturkley?), small binders stamp to fpd, some light edge browning, small worm evidence to epd. Plates are: An Otaheitean Chief; Otaheitean War Canoe; Hut in Van Diemen's Land; The Death of Captain Cook. Originally published in 1788. Narrative of the voyages round the world performed by Captain James Cook. (Folio, 8.7*13.6 cms). Uncommon! (Hunnewell p47 for 1st). Kippis, Presbyterian minister and biographer, was chiefly known for his Biographia Britannica, of which he was editor and prime mover. He was recognized, for good or ill, depending on the view of the reader, as the leading biographer of his day. See ODNB for a full Bio.