Pacific.- Cook (Captain James) [First Voyage].- Parkinson (Sydney) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour, first edition, engraved portrait and 26 plates, errata leaf at end with final blank present, lacking map, contemporary ink signature of M.Peirson on verso of portrait and initials M.P. on verso of most plates, heavy staining to lower inner corner of first third of book causing loss to portrait, title and pp.iii-vi (mostly marginal but affecting corner of portrait, repaired), some browning and offsetting but many plates clean, bookplate of Viscount Falmouth of Mereworth Castle, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old morocco label, upper cover stained and repaired at lower inner corner, corners repaired, 4to, for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.
Pacific.- Cook (Captain James) [First Voyage].- Parkinson (Sydney) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's Ship, The Endeavour, first edition, engraved portrait and 26 plates, errata leaf at end with final blank present, lacking map, contemporary ink signature of M.Peirson on verso of portrait and initials M.P. on verso of most plates, heavy staining to lower inner corner of first third of book causing loss to portrait, title and pp.iii-vi (mostly marginal but affecting corner of portrait, repaired), some browning and offsetting but many plates clean, bookplate of Viscount Falmouth of Mereworth Castle, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine preserving old morocco label, upper cover stained and repaired at lower inner corner, corners repaired, 4to, for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773.
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