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Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 300 (350) copies printed in Perpetua on mould-made paper. Illustrated with 13 wood engravings, some full-page. Green buckram, gilt leather label, elaborately blocked in gold on the front, top edge gilt, others uncut. Engraved bookplate, just slightly cocked at the spine. A very good copy indeed Sparrman's eye-witness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, was published in Sweden in 1818, but had not previously appeared in English. Peter Barker-Mill's wood-engravings are particularly successful as is the gold-blocking on the binding. (Cockalorum 162)
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$704.48 + shipping
Description: First edition in English, limited edition, no. 283 of 350 copies, small folio, 218, (2) pp. Frontispiece and wood engraved chapter headings plus a folding map, four page prospectus loosely inserted. Original green buckram, gilt vignette to upper cover, brown morocco label, mild rubbing to extremities and a couple of light marks otherwise a very good copy. A Swedish botanist who was added to Cook's party when they reached the Cape in October 1772, Sparrman is best known for his account of a voyage to South Africa and studies of the people there. Although his diaries from his time with Cook were published in Sweden, this is the first time they were translated into English. Cockalorum 162.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$777.49 + shipping
Description: 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 An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English.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. .
Seller: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
SPARRMAN Anders. A Voyage Round the World. , 1944.
Price: US$806.94 + shipping
Description: with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution. No. 210 of an edition of 350. Woodcut frontispiece & 25 vignettes. Small folio. Original pictorial olive buckram, gilt, morocco label. 218, 1pp. London, The Golden Cockerel Press, With wood engravings by Peter Barker-Mill. Sparmann joined Cook's second voyage on the Resolution at Table Bay as an assistant botanist to the Forsters (at the latter's expense). His narrative, published originally in parts in Stockholm is extremely rare and Owen Rutter's production was to be the first English edition. Du Rietz, 1231.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1224.13 + shipping
Description: Introduction & Notes by Owen Rutter. [Translated into English by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve]. Pp. 220(last blank)+[2](blank), folding map, 12 wood-engravings by Peter Barker-Mill, appendix, notes; f'cap folio; green buckram, with gilt lettered & decorated brown leather title label on spine, upper board decorated in gilt, the cloth slightly marked and rubbed, fore-corners and foot of spine lightly bruised; top edge gilt; some browning of preliminary blank and frontispiece from previously inserted newsclipping [not present]; The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1944. First Edition in English, limited to 350 numbered copies on Arnold's mould-made paper. Holmes 92; Beddie 1284; Davidson, pages 62-63; Spence 1150; USN 23-5.59; Cockalorum l62. *An eyewitness account of a three-year voyage with Captain Cook, previously unpublished in English.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia