Hawkesworth
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Period marbled full sheepskin bindingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiquite fresh interiors, light wetting on the corner of volume 2, little to no foxingit is signed by hawkesworth, a lawyer chosen by the crown to draft the relationship, founding the personal diaries of several members of the expeditioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis 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)binding as it is: spine missing from volume 7-8the 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)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefor bibliophiles, cook's travels is a monument to the travel bookthey have been the subject of relatively few editions, and are particularly appreciated for the quality of the text8 tomes in 4 voldry leather, scuffingspine decorated with golden tooling, title and volume number labelsa 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 sheepskinplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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The last three are in english onlythe tenth international botanical congress, edinburghpublished utrechtare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia rare collection of the international codes, published after the relevant botanical congress meetingsthe thirteenth international botanical congress, sydney[the standard works, charting the changes in the rules governing botanical taxonomyvery good condition, 389 pagesthe fifteenth international botanical congress, yokohamathe fourteenth international botanical congress, berlinvery good condition, 402 pagesit is rare to find a collection such as thispublished utrechtquarto, 99 pages, slightly worn internally, bound in black cloth, with spine label, a bit wornpublished konigsteininternational rules of botanical nomenclature, adopted by the international botanical congress of viennaa duplicate from the library of royal holloway college, with a stamp on the title page and a bookplate on the front endpaperpublished koenigstein[interesting, historicallyvery good condition, 474 pages[the tokyo code]our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store] also included is: john briquet (editor)published jenavery good condition, 328 pagesthe sixteenth international botanical congress, st louisa slight mark to the upper cover, otherwise very good, 472 pagescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablepublished koenigstein(saint-louis code]the first two volumes are trilingual - english, french, germanplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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