London: Perpetua Books, 1960. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is very slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1974. Crown 8vo. First edition. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge stained blue. With 51 illustrations (4 in colour) and 5 maps. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 8vo. SALE PRICE. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Top edge stained red. Portrait frontispiece and eight further plates. Slightly foxed d/w tanned on spine with a tiny nick at the head of the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Map endpapers and frontispiece. Black and white photographic plate sections. Just a little crumpling to the top of the unclipped d/w's spine and some slight foxing to the top edges of the flaps. Neat ink ownership opposite half-title, dated.....
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press (volumes 1-3) & A & C Black (volume 4) for the Hakluyt Society, 1955-74. 8vo. & portfolio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, with a gilt block of Cook on each front board. Five volumes in d/ws and a portfolio. Illustrated throughout in black.....
Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1967. Crown 8vo. 2 volumes. First editions. Original navy buckram, gilt. 'Cook and the Russians' stapled pamphlet (1973) loosely inserted. Colour portrait frontispiece, 78 plates, 14 maps (only of 15, without the folding map to the rear of volume 2.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1979. 8vo. SALE PRICE. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. D/w price-clipped. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1939. 8vo. SALE PRICE. First edition. First state red cloth with gilt lettering. With ten photographic illustrations on eight plates including the frontispiece. Covers dust-soiled and worn at spine ends and corner tips. Front hinge a bit weak. Remains of a strip of paper glued.....
London: The Bodley Head, 1983. 8vo. SALE PRICE. First edition. Original green cloth. Top edge stained green. Jacket by Michael Harvey. Unclipped d/w is a bit tanned, especially on the spine. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903-05. 8vo. 12 volumes, set. First editions thus. Original navy cloth, lettered on the spines and with gilt emblems to the front boards. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Portrait frontispieces, except volume 12. 5 folding facsimile plates, 35 folding maps and plans, 55 plates etc......
London: John Murray, 1947. 4to. First trade edition. Original yellow cloth. Illustrated by the author. Spine ends darkened where the d/w is chipped. Tile page browned probably by some, now absent, newspaper clipping. D/w also rubbed, dust-soiled and with several short splits. Very good + in good d/w. There was.....
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930. 16mo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1924. Original blind-stamped navy cloth, gilt. Top edge stained blue. Neat ink ownership on fly. Fine. #275 in The World's Classics.
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1904. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original blue cloth, blind-stamped and with gilt device of 'Victoria' to each front board. Map pocket at rear of volume 2. Three folding maps in pocket. Spines faded and tanned. Spine ends and corner tips slightly rubbed. Bookplate of Repton School.....
London: Methuen, 1991. 8vo. SALE PRICE. Reissue. First thus. First published in 1934. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine dust-wrapper. Travels in British Guiana in 1933.