Author: Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta & Krüger, Gundolf (eds.)
Title: James Cook: gifts and treasures from the South Seas / Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee
Description: Prestel, Munich and New York, 1998.1st edition / Deutsch-Englische Ausgabe.Hard covers, dust jacket.ISBN: 3791318683.Fine/Fine.Fine/fine.Price ticket inside front dust-flap.Lavishly illustrated catalogue of the Cook/Forster collection of ethnographic artefacts, Göttingen.Map of Cook's three voyages on front end-papers; 351 pp, 341 numbered catalogue entries.Only the main text articles are published in German and English (in two columns); the catalogue section, which commences on p.277, is in English only.The full-page colour plates, pp.97-138, are beautifully lit and photographed and stunningly reproduced; the Hodges engravings, in monochrome and set into the text, somewhat less so as there is an inherent problem in copying finely etched detail into half-tone.As book is rather heavy, please ask for a transport quotation when ordering. In English.1.0 kg.

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