A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook by A. Kippis
1878. No Edition Remarks. 404 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white plates throughout. Black and white frontispiece. Gilt edges to textblock. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Dedication to front free endpaper. Some scribbling in pencil on two pages at front. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces. Book has slight forward lean.