| Description |
[v] pages, x, viii, 150 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 75 [that is 78] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm (quarto) |
| Series |
Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK717. ANL
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| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
"A. Sparrman described the plants, G. Forster drew them and J.R. Forster supervised the whole." -Bibliography of Captain James Cook |
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Includes index |
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Library's NK717 copy half bound with red marbled boards and speckled edges; bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1776/5) as well as that of Cholmondeley Library ("Case L, Shelf 2, no. 9"). ANL |
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Library's Petherick copy (SRq COOK 24, formerly SRq2 910.4 C771 F733 and RBNq 581.94 FOR) has blue and orange marbled endpapers and plates bound together at end; base copy with plates interleaved with text; this copy is more closely cut than the copy accessioned 13662. ANL |
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Library's SRq COOK 23 (formerly SRq 910.4 C771 F733) copy contains the Chippendale armorial bookplate of Thos. Woodward; stamped Parliament of the Commonwealth Library and accession no. 13662. ANL |
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Library's SRq COOK 55 (formerly SRq/ef 910.4 C771 P486) is from the complete green stamped Petherick set consisting of 11 titles including various editions of the three official accounts (B648, B1217, B1553); Parkinson (B714); Forster's Account (B1247), Observations (B1262) and Characteres (B1385 - title page inscribed in ink, "Boutelou", presumably a copy previously owned by Spanish botanist and gardener, Esteban Boutelou); Observations by Wales (B719) and Bayly (B1287); Kippis (B32); Samwell (B1620) and atlas (B1553). The 15 volume texts and atlas with spine title: Cook's voyages. Each volume has a second spine title for the title of the work. Entire set with atlas is 16 volumes bound. ANL |
| Subject |
Botany -- Australia -- Early works to 1800.
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Botany -- Oceania -- Early works to 1800.
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| Author |
Forster, Georg, 1754-1794.
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Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.
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