Live auction - Lot 555
[Cook - World]
Vie du capitaine Cook, traduite de l'anglois [...].
Paris, Hôtel de Thou [Pancoucke], 1789
Hammer price: €
200
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [4]-xxxii-546-[2] pp. (some foxing, offsetting on pp. 520-521).
Contemp. marbled calf, triple gilt-ruled covers, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, marbled edges matching endpapers (sl. rubbed).
Deluxe edition of the first French edition by Jean Henri Castéra, published one year after the original in English. There is another 4to issue with the translator's name on title and an 8vo edition in 2 vol. published the same year.
Ref. Sabin 37955 (ed. with the transl. name). - Chadenat 3262.
Prov. Fürstlich-Starhemberg'sche Familien-Bibliothek Schloss Eferding (stamp).