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pp. xiv, 230 + Portrait frontis, drawings and folding map. Map endpapers. 8vo. Original full cloth binding, slightly stained. Original dust jacket with price clipped. Hardbound. Nice copy of the readable account of Captain James Cook explorations to the South Pacific. TRAVEL/3
208p., illus. A shortened version of Barrow's The Eventful History of the ... Bounty, pub. in 1831. Illus. w/ 9 color plates & B/W facsimiles. Hardcover Very good condition in green cloth & decorative endpapers
Features: A Boy in the Bush - a young boy kills wild scrub bulls for bounty in Australia's outback; In the Dark - An Australian is tasked with catching gold thieves in a mine in Southern India; The town that was reborn - Williamsburg, Virginia; The Seaquake - adventure on a voyage from British Honduras to Yucatan; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang (conclusiont) - the worst band of desperadoes to ever trouble the south-western States of America; Frontier Gateway - Peshawar (great photo of a 'walking teashop); The Forgotten Islands - The Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia - several photos; Arctic Derelict - a strange sea-story from the Canadian Arctic; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Part XI, "of about 24", featuring Australasia and the Pacific; Egypt. Circa 1910. Numerous photographs. One colour plate. Paginated 321 to 352. Staple bound, with rusty staples, front cover half detached with tear midway on joint edge.
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; green boards, blue cloth back lettered in silver, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper.