PARKINSON, Sydney

A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas

London, Caliban Books, 1984 (smaller-format facsimile edition)/ 1784.

Octavo, xxiv (last blank), 22, 214 pages plus 27 plates and a map.

Papered boards; an excellent copy with the slightly scuffed dustwrapper.

An unauthorised account of Cook's first voyage by Sydney Parkinson, the young natural history draughtsman engaged by Joseph Banks.

Item #128903

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