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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Folio, 218, [219, colophon] pp. With a folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Original olive buckram, with gilt lettered & decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, a very good copy as issued. § First Edition in English, limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. *An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English. The first English translation of Sparrman's complete narrative of Cook's second voyage, which had originally been published in Sweden in 1802-1818. Bibliography: Holmes 92; Beddie 1284; Davidson, pages 62-63; Spence 1150; USN 23-5.59; Cockalorum 162.