Forty Drawings of Fishes made by the Artists who accompanied Captain James Cook on his Voyages to the Pacific

First edition, small folio. xxxi pp of text, blue cloth hard cover, cream dust jacket, 40 col. pl. mostly after watercolours by Sydney Parkinson, the artist on board Cook’s first voyage, each with a letterpress description. Published by the British Museum.
Bound in Blue cloth and a cream dust jacket embossed with a gilded image of Cook’s ship, ‘Endeavour’.

Condition: Fine       Size: 440mm x 300