1893 A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed By Captain James Cook

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Prize Binding, Signed Binding

The 1893 edition of nonconformist clergyman and biographer Andrew Kippis's study of the life and voyages of Captain James Cook, in a full calf school prize binding, signed by Bickers.

Kippis includes accounts of Cook's three voyages – 1768–1771, 1772–1775, and 1776–1779 – as well as a study of the character of the British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain, the effects of his voyages, and a commentary on his services. 

Illustrated with twelve plates 'reproduced in exact facsimile from drawings made during the voyages'. Collated, complete.

With a prize bookplate from Charterhouse School to the front pastedown, dated 1912.

A detailed and insightful biography of perhaps this pioneering navigator, who famously vowed to sail 'as far as I think it possible for man to go'.