Lot 11
11. [BIBLIOGRAPHY & SUPPORTING MATERIAL]. ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich. Zimmermann’s
Captain Cook. An Account of the Third Voyage of Captain Cook around the World,
1776-1780, by Henry Zimmermann...and Translated from the Mannheim Edition
of 1781 by Elsa Michaelis and Cecil French. Toronto: Ryerson, [1930].
xiv, [4], 120 pp., photographic frontispiece (scene), 1 folded map, text
illustrations (title pages, maps). 8vo, original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered,
device gilt on upper cover, partly unopened. Spine spotted and faded, cloth
faded and spotted, interior very clean. A very good copy.
Limited
edition (#234 of 250 copies). Beaglehole
III, p. ccvi. Beddie 1635. Davidson, pp. 66-67. Holmes 141. Howes Z14. Kroepelien
1368. O’Reilly-Reitman 426. Strathern 631(iv). This is the second translation
into English, the first being published in 1926 (see Item 10 above). The four
charts by Lieutenant James Burney appear here for the first time, and the documentation
is considerably more extensive than in the 1926 edition, including the excellent
work of Howay. ($150-300)
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