James Cook, Surveyor of Newfoundland: Being a Collection of Charts of the Coasts of Newfoundland and Labradore, &c. Drawn from Original Surveys Taken by James Cook and Michael Lane. London, Thomas Jefferys, 1769-1770

by SKELTON, R. A. [editor]

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Book description: San Francisco: David Magee, 1965. First edition in this format. One of 365 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Folio. 32 pp. text booklet & folder of twelve collotype facsimile plates (11 charts & a title-page), several folding. Two volumes. 15 x 11 & 18 x 12 , wrappers, both housed in drop-back linen box with gilt-lettered black morocco spine label. Excellent reproductions of the charts which brought to Cook the first notice of his Naval superiors, and led to his being chosen for the great Pacific voyages for which he will forever be remembered. The facsimile charts are collotypes from the Meriden Gravure Co. of Meriden, CT. GB 649.

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