5 vols. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. 1985.
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[Art/Illustrated] 5 volumes (1) Joppien, Rudiger & Bernard Smith. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. Yale University Press, New Haven 1985-88. Comprising: Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771; Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution & Adventure 1772-1775; Volumes III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780. 2 volumes. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. xv, 247; xiii, 274; xxi, 233; 235-669 pp. Folio. Brown cloth with dustjackets. Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. This extensive work catalogues the many drawings, paintings, and engravings made by the artists of Cook's voyages, being some of the earliest visual records of the people and islands of the Pacific Ocean. (2) Baudin in Australian Waters: The Artwork of the French Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804.Condition: Near fine. Minor rubbing to edges of boards.Provenance: From the Library of the Godfather of Biodiversity, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy.
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