The life of Captain James Cook / by Andrew Kippis
- Bib ID:
- 91273
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795
- Description:
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- London : Printed for G. Nicol ... and G.G.J. and J. Robinson ..., 1788
- [v], xvi,[1], 527 p., [1] leaf of plate : port. ; 31 cm. (4to)
- Series:
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK7232.
- Notes:
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- "The Morai, an ode by Helen Maria Williams"-- p. 520-527.
- Advertisement on last leaf.
- Frontispiece is a port. of Cook, from the original owned by Sir Joseph Banks.
- Library's SRq COOK 54 copy (SRq/ef 910.4 C771 P486) is 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); Observations by Wales (B719) and Bayly (B1287); Kippis (B32); Samwell (B1620) and atlas (B1553). The 15 v. 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 subsequent to publication in green morocco with gold embossed covers and spines.
- National Library of Australia's SRq COOK 54 (SRq 910.4 C771 P486) bound with: A narrative of the death of Captain James Cook ... / by David Samwell.
- National Library of Australia's NK7232 copy has pasted in frontispiece : Captn. James Cook, F.R.S. / T. Cook, sculp. [Pub. by J. Fielding, Aug. 13, 1784] (see Beddie 3569)
- National Library of Australia's Robinson copy has W. S. Robinson's bookplate.
- National Library of Australia copy at MS 8152 has manuscript letters tipped in.
- Rex Nan Kivell Collection NK7232.
- Cited In:
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- Beddie, M.K. Cook (2nd ed), 32.
- C & C, 4981.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Kippis's Life of Cook.
- Copyright:
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Out of Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1795
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1788
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