Product Description
A descriptive catalogue of drawings and artworks associated with Captain Cook's travels.
The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, an illustrative catalogue and art history of his voyages to Australia and the Pacific, written by art historians Rüdiger Joppien and Bernard Smith.
Published by Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre in 1985.
In the publisher's original red cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers.
Each volume is filled with in-text illustrations from Captain Cook's Voyages, including eight in colour in Volume I, and forty-three in colour in Volume II.
Collated complete.
Critiquing and analysing the various artworks produced across Captain Cook's Voyages, we gain an excellent visual picture of the various artefacts and scenes that the explorers encountered, including jewellery, tools, peoples and landscapes.
Taking the reader through sources chronologically, Joppien and Smith immerse us in Cook's iconic expeditions.
In the publisher's original red cloth.
Externally, in excellent condition, with minimal shelfwear and a couple of small fading marks to right edge of volume I front board.
Dust wrappers are bright and clean, with minimal marks.
Minor edgewear to front wrapper joints, mostly near tail of spine.
Small faint spotting to reverse of wrapper spine.
End papers are bright and clean, with a couple of minor spots to volume I front end papers.
Internally, firmly bound.
Pages are bright and clean.
Fine
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