Author: Cook, James.
Title: Reize rondom de waereld, door James Cook, vertaald door J. D. Pasteur.
Description: Leiden, Amsterdam & s'-Gravenhage: Honkoop, Allart & van Cleef, 1795-1803. 13 text-volumes, 1 unnumbered index-volume and separate atlas-volume. 187 copper-engraved plates in total. This includes: one portrait of cook (frontispiece), 134 numbered plates (two different plates both numbered XX; No. XLVIII = Pl. XLVIII; LXXXIV = LXXXIII; LXXXV = wrongly numbered; all mostly unfolded), 52 maps (mostly unfolded; No. 26 is the large unnumbered worldmap, two different maps are both numbered XXX). All uniformely bound in original early 19th century gilt-tooled and speckled half calf over marbled boards. sm. 4to (text- and index-volumes) & large oblong (atlas-volume) - Spines very sl. worn / rubbed along the ends / corners; small library-stamps on some of the first free-endpapers.* One of the most attractive / practical copies on the market: text and plates in pristine condition due to the extraordinary way of binding the maps in an large oblong album and tipping-in the plates on sheets.

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