Lot 1954

Description

Captain Cook books, includes Captain Cook Navigator & Scientist, Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium Australian Academy of Science, Canberra 1 May 1969, edited by G.M.Badger, 1970 first edition, 143pp; Captain James Cook Image and Impact, South Seas Discoveries and the World of Letters, edited by Walter Veit, 1972 first edition, 137pp; Captain James Cook Image and Impact Vol II, South Seas Discoveries and the World of Letters, edited by Walter Veit, 1979 first edition, 200pp; With Captain James Cook in the Antarctic and Pacific, The Private Journal of James Burney, Second Lieutenant of the Adventure on Cook's Second Voyage 1772-1773, edited by Beverley Hooper, 1975 first edition, 112pp; The Exploration of the Pacific, by J.C.Beaglehole,1975 third edition, 346pp; also James Cook His Coins & Medals, by Dr W.J.D.Mira, 1970 first edition, 44pp, with library plate of Ken C. Welch inside front cover. The first five all with dust jackets, the first book with foxing on first and last few pages, otherwise minimum usage, extremely fine. (6)