The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768-1771 in Two Volumes by J. C. Beaglehole (editor).

Publisher: Sydney; The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson; 1963.

Very good hardbacks with jackets. Both books are bound in original maroon cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, no inscriptions, some rubbing to edges, a little compression to spine ends, fading to top of spines, binding frim, pages very good, minor marks, foxing to top edge. Jackets are rubbed at edges, minor marks, fading to spine, some chipping. Volume I jacket has a scratch on back, a small repaired tear to top of spine, and is price-clipped. Volume II has a bump to top corner of book and jacket.

Vol I, pp. xxviii, 476; colour frontispiece,19 pages plates at end of volume, 9 pages of colour illustrations, 6 text illustrations, 5 sketch maps; Volume II. pp. xviii, 406, 20 pages of plates at end of volume; colour frontispiece, 5 colour plates, 4 sketch maps including one fold-out map showing track of endeavour round the world,

The work is notable for its wealth of illustrations, mainly by Sydney Parkinson, who went on the voyage as Banks's botanical draughtsman. Eighteen of his remarkably beautiful botanical and zoological drawings are reproduced for the first time in full colour, and there are in addition eighty plates in monochrome collotype, topographical, botanical, zoological, and ethnographical. The introduction is given a separate series of portraits and there are also a number of sketch maps. The great majority of these illustrations have not before been published.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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