Description
Author: Joseph Banks
Format: Leather Bound
Imprint: GENESIS PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9780904351057
The journal of botanist Joseph Banks, who travelled aboard the HMS Endeavour on Captain Cook’s first voyage to the South Pacific.
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spines. With the dust jackets. Coloured frontispiece to each and 14 other similar plates. 80 black and white plates, 8 sketch-maps to the text, all but 2 full-page, folding track-chart.
Contributors: Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Commentary by Dr Averil Lysaght
Binding: 1/4 leather with gilt tooling and page edges
Box: Buckram slipcase
Extras: 2-volumes: In addition to the faithful reproduction of Banks’s handwritten journal there is a newly written illustrated commentary by the late Dr Averil Lysaght
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