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Lot 42

COXE (WILLIAM)
A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with Those Made by Captains Cook and Clerke; and a Sketch of What Remains to Be Ascertained by Future Navigators

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Footnotes

"EXCEEDINGLY RARE" (Holmes). This pamphlet was issued as a supplement to the author's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America (1780). In the preface Coxe notes that "the author would have arranged, at a more early period, the following Comparative View, which seems necessarily connected with his former publication... if he had not been absent from England when Cook's [Third] Voyage first made its appearance; and if continued travels and avocations had not prevented him consulting those books, charts and manuscripts which the examination of so intricate a subject required".

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