This is a complete first edition set of Captain Cook’s third and final voyage across the ocean. The title is Captain James Cook, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory Abridgement of the Voyage Written By Captain James Cook, F.R.S. And Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with Cuts. In Four Volumes, London, Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd, and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy. MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. This was Captain Cook's third attempt to discover a northwest passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and it was his final voyage because he was killed off the Sandwich Islands (present-day Hawaii), and this recounts the voyage. Initially his ships sailed to Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, then they sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from northern California through the Bering Strait before he was stopped by pack ice, then his ships returned to the Sandwich Islands for the winter and he was killed in a skirmish with natives over a boat. Charles Clerke took command, he died six months later, and the fleet returned to England under John Gore. John Webber was the artist on the expedition. The books have five raised bands, red labels with gilt titles, brown boards, blank endpapers with “P. Pope, December 7th, 1855” inscribed on the front paste-downs and a Yardley bookplate on the front free endpapers, and the first book has a dedication page after the title page, and the last book has a 35-page Index, followed by a List of Subscribers and Directions for placing the Copper Plates and Directions to the Binder, and a list of pamphlets and books published by John Stockdale at the end. The set is the first octavo edition and has all the fold-out maps and engravings that are called for. The first book has the frontis portrait of Capt. Cook and a large folding map called A General Chart which showed the routes and discoveries made by Captain Cook, and the third book has a fold-out sketch of Karakakooa Bay and a chart of the Sandwich Islands, as well as the fold-out showing the death of Captain Cook; there are 49 full-page engravings altogether in the four volumes, and the engravings say “Cook’s Voyage, Octavo Edition” at the top. (Sabin 16251) The first book is 360 pages long, the second is 359 pages, the third 400, and the final book is 310 pages long, and the boards may be the original boards. The books are 8vo. and measure 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide. with wear on the spines and at the tips, light browning, the frontis portrait, title page and dedication page in the first book are detached, but present, and there are pencilled notes on the front free endpaper of the first book.
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A Miscellaneous Group, including a pair of portrait photographs of King George V and a signed Queen Mary; a Post Office money box and key; an Italian brass desk knife; a cased toothpick; a Dunhill cigarette lighter; a Queen Elizabeth II timepiece; a British Red Cross badge; and binocularsThe portrait of King is undisigned is in reasonable condition, the leather strut is completely detached, general wear to the leather, Queen Mary with a wide border of heavy fading/discolouration, strut is very loose but still attached, general wear to the leather.Both inscribed verso; personally presented to Lt Col... (see images)
λ KARL HAGEDORN (BRITISH 1889-1969)PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MANPencil and watercolourSigned with monogram and dated 22 (upper right)51 x 34.5cm (20 x 13½ in.)Provenance:Chris Beetles Ltd., LondonExhibited:Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester's First Modernist Karl Hagedorn (1889-1969), September- November 1994London, Chris Beetles Ltd., January-March 1995, no. 67Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Condition Report: There is what appears to be a repaired tear running off the centre of the right hand edge into the sitter's knee, approx. 10cm). There is another small crease and associated fine paint loss to the upper left corner. There are a few further light surface scuffs to the upper left quadrant. Under glass and unexamined out of frame.Condition Report Disclaimer
λ FRIGYUES FRANK (HUNGARIAN 1890-1976)SELF PORTRAIT IN A HATPencil and watercolourSigned twice (lower left and right)44 x 32.5cm (17¼ x 12¾ in.)Provenance:Crane Kalman Gallery, LondonMr & Mrs P. King, Private Collection (acquired from the above in July 1992)Exhibited:London, Crane Kalman Gallery, Hungarian Artists Abroad, 1989Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated.
FRENCH SCHOOL (19TH CENTURY)AN ETRUSCAN-STYLE PORTRAIT OF TWO WOMEN, WITH FLORAL BORDERSWatercolour Overall inc. frame 73 x 77.5cm (28½ x 30½ in.) Provenance: From the Estate of the late Jean-Claude Ciancimino Condition Report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. Some light staining to the upper edge and general mottled discolouration scattered across the sheet. Condition Report Disclaimer
CONTINENTAL SCHOOL (18TH CENTURY)PORTRAIT OF A STANDING GENTLEMAN WITH A STAFF; PORTRAIT OF A STANDING LADY HOLDING A BAGWatercolour, pencil and wash12.5 x 5.7cm (4¾ x 2 in.)Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Condition Report: Unexamined out of glazed frame. Light staining to the extreme edges of each sheet and light discolouration and fading to the sheet evident at the edges where there was potentially an old mount. Condition Report Disclaimer
EUGENIE MORIN (FRENCH FL. 1833-1875)A PAIR OF PORTRAIT STUDIES OF LADIES, SMALL FULL-LENGTHPencil and watercolourBoth signed and dated 185824 x 16cm (9¼ x 6¼ in.) (2)Provenance:Sale, Christie's, New York, 30th of August 2011, lot 313 (as Edmond Morin) Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Condition Report: Under glass and unexamined out of frame. Overall discolouration of the sheets and particularly around the edges. Some foxing. Condition Report Disclaimer
FRENCH SCHOOL (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)PORTRAIT OF A FRENCH SOLDIEROil on canvasIndistinctly signed and dated lower left (underneath the frame above the arm)33.5 x 24.5cm (13 x 9½ in.)Please note measurements do not include the frame unless otherwise stated. Condition Report: The canvas has been relined. Some surface dirt and discolouration of the varnish. UV light reveals some retouching in the sitter's face. Condition Report Disclaimer
In the manner of Dante Gabriel Rosetti - a full length portrait of a man wearing a robe, monogrammed and dated top left 1874 engraving, framed & glazed, 36 by 93cms.Condition ReportThere are some marks to the paper and a horizontal line to the centre - either a crease or a mark from an earlier backboard, some discolouration overall and to the bottom left corner otherwise looks to be in good overall condition.
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