CAPTAIN COOK'S FINAL APPEARANCE
The royal kalendar; or complete and correct annual register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1780...
London.
Printed for J. Almon et al., [1780].
12mo.
12mo. [4], 272pp. ESTC T45315.
[Bound with:] RIDER, Cardinus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1780... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by G. Hawkins, 1780. [60]pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC T45019.
12mo. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Slightly shaved at head with occasional loss to pagination numerals, leaves F2/3 of first mentioned work stuck together.
[Bound with:] RIDER, Cardinus. Rider's British Merlin: For the Year of Our Lord God 1780... London. Printed for the Company of Stationers, and sold by G. Hawkins, 1780. [60]pp. Title and calendar in red and black. ESTC T45019.
12mo. Contemporary gilt-tooled red calf, A.E.G., marbled endpapers. A trifle rubbed and marked. Slightly shaved at head with occasional loss to pagination numerals, leaves F2/3 of first mentioned work stuck together.
An attractively bound copy of the Royal Kalendar for the year 1780; the final issue of the almanac to include in its list of Royal Navy officers Captain James Cook, who had died the year prior.
Though killed on the 13th February, 1779, news of Cook's death did not reach British shores until eleven months later; no doubt accounting for the appearance of his name here.
£ 500.00
Antiquates Ref: 33842
Though killed on the 13th February, 1779, news of Cook's death did not reach British shores until eleven months later; no doubt accounting for the appearance of his name here.
