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HAND-COLORED COPY, FROM A PERSIAN OR NORTH INDIAN COLLECTION COOK, JAMES, Captain. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. atlas volume only, containing 56
HAND-COLORED COPY, FROM A PERSIAN OR NORTH INDIAN COLLECTION COOK, JAMES, Captain. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. atlas volume only, containing 56 of (of 61) engraved plates and 2 double-page maps, as well as 14 extraneous contemporary plates and maps, hand-colored throughout. Folio, 565x410 mm, modern 1/4 morocco; occasional marginal soiling, scattered minor marginal repairs, the General Chart of Cook's voyage repaired on verso and loose in rear cover pocket. London, 1784
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Notes: unique hand-colored copy of the atlas to cook's third and last voyage, apparently at one time in a Persian or North Indian collection, possibly not long after publication, with annotations in persian on all but six of the plates explaining the subject matter of the illustrations. One plate has 2 partly indistinct stamps possibly referring to the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II (1728-1806). The missing plates are A Man of Nootka Sound; A Woman of Nootka Sound; A Man of Oonalashka; A Woman of Oonalashka; and Sea Horses.
The extraneous plates are: Omai, 1777 (from Cook's second voyage); Apres de Mannvillette, The Cape Verd Islands, 1775; [Apres de Mannvillette?], Plan de la Baye et du Port de Rio-Janeiro, [1775?]; A View of Part of the N.E. Side of Terra del Fuego, [1773] (from Cook's first voyage); A Survey of the North East Side of Juan Fernandes Island, nd (from an unidentified edition of Anson's voyage); The Bay and Rocks of Petaplan, nd (from Anson's voyage); A Plan of the Harbor of Chequetan or Seguataneo, nd (from Anson's voyage); The Form of cruising off Acapulca on the Coast of Mexico, nd (from Anson's voyage); Several Appearances of the Agoada Fort near the Island of Goa, 1778; An Exact Representation of the Death of Captn. James Cook F.R.S. at Karakakooa Bay, in Owhyhee, on Feby 14, 1779 (vertical creases reinforced on verso, left edge somewhat frayed and darkened); Femme du Port des Français, [1797] (from the atlas to La Pérouse's voyage); Views on the Coast of Kamtschatka, [1784] (from Cook's third voyage); Chart of Necker Island, 1798 (from the English edition of La Pérouse's voyage); Appearances of the Capes of Aden, St. Anthony, and Bab-el-Mandeb on the Southern Coast of Arabia Felix, 1778.
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