1980s Illustrated Quarto Volume Set, Rüdiger Joppien's the Art of Captain Cook's Voyages - 2 Books

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Joppien, Rüdiger and Bernard Smith. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all the known original … more Joppien, Rüdiger and Bernard Smith. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages. With a Descriptive Catalogue of all the known original drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them.

New Haven and London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1985, first edition. 4to; Volume 1 (V1), xv, 247; Volume 2 (V2), xiii, 274 pp. Brown cloth boards with minor shelf edge wear, illustrated. Glossy illustrated dust jacket with sporadic handling wear, V1 gently sunned spine and front cover. Book and Jacket design by Derrick Stone. Very good in a very good dust jacket.

When the first edition, V1 and V2, was published, 1985, Volume 3, 1988, was forthcoming. less