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The original french edition was published in quarto format by saillant and nyon and at panckoucke in , duplicated on the same date, by the same printers, an octavo edition (8 tomes)this first expedition took place between and , after the royal society entrusted the endeavour to james cook, with the main mission of exploring the south pacific ocean and searching for a hypothetical southern continent (which he would not find)dry leather, scuffingit is signed by hawkesworth, a lawyer chosen by the crown to draft the relationship, founding the personal diaries of several members of the expeditionbinding as it is: spine missing from volume 7-8they have been the subject of relatively few editions, and are particularly appreciated for the quality of the textperiod marbled full sheepskin bindingquite fresh interiors, light wetting on the corner of volume 2, little to no foxingfor bibliophiles, cook's travels is a monument to the travel booka rare new edition of cook's first voyage (also containing the stories of byron, carteret and wallis) complete with the text in 8 tomes (in 4 volumes) octavo period binding in full sheepskincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storespine decorated with golden tooling, title and volume number labels8 tomes in 4 vol
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The first two volumes are trilingual - english, french, german[the standard works, charting the changes in the rules governing botanical taxonomyinternational rules of botanical nomenclature, adopted by the international botanical congress of viennaquarto, 99 pages, slightly worn internally, bound in black cloth, with spine label, a bit worna duplicate from the library of royal holloway college, with a stamp on the title page and a bookplate on the front endpaperthe fourteenth international botanical congress, berlinit is rare to find a collection such as thispublished konigstein[interesting, historicallya rare collection of the international codes, published after the relevant botanical congress meetingsthe last three are in english onlypublished koenigsteincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki[the tokyo code](saint-louis code]the fifteenth international botanical congress, yokohamaa slight mark to the upper cover, otherwise very good, 472 pagesvery good condition, 389 pagespublished jenathe sixteenth international botanical congress, st louispublished utrecht] also included is: john briquet (editor)published utrechtvery good condition, 328 pagesvery good condition, 402 pagesthe tenth international botanical congress, edinburghthe thirteenth international botanical congress, sydneyvery good condition, 474 pagesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitepublished koenigsteinour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store
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