Lot 82
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[Cook, Captain James] - Australia
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
Whitehead, P.J.P. Forty drawings of fishes made by the artists who accompanied Captain James Cook … London: The British Museum (Natural History), 1968. Large folio, frontispiece showing portraits of artists, 36 plates, many coloured, blue cloth with gilt figure of ship on front cover, dust jacket with gilt ship, slight fading to dust jacket; Lewin, John William. A natural history of the birds of New South Wales… Melbourne: Queensberry Hill Press, 1978. Folio, limited number 242 of 500 copies with the two proof plates specially issued with volume, frontispiece, 27 colour plates, bound by hand at the Dove Bindery, Melbourne, in blind tooled orange leather, protective cloth case (2)
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire