Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par M. Castera

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Sale 332: Americana - Travel - Exploration - Maritime; Maps & Atlases (#332) 05/25/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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Lot #202Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par M. Castera

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Sale 332: Americana - Travel - Exploration - Maritime; Maps & Atlases (#332) 05/25/2006 1:00 PM PDT Closed
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(Cook's Life in French)

Title:

Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par M. Castera

Author:

(Kippis, Andrew)

Place Published:

Paris

Publisher:

Hotel de Thou

Date Published:

1789

Description:

2 volumes. [4], xl, 387; [4], 419. (8vo) 8¼x5½, original plain wrappers. First Edition thus.

First French edition of Kippis' Life of Cook, also issued in a quarto edition the same year. As issued in wrappers, edges untrimmed and second volume entirely unopened. Hill 170; Sabin 37955.

Condition:

Wrappers worn, especially first volume; faint stains to margin of first few and last couple pages of first volume; short tear to margin of p. 7 in Vol. 2, else very good.

Item#:

171066
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