The Endeavour Journal Of Joseph Banks 1767-1771. Two Volumes. by BANKS, JOSEPH. Edited by BEAGLEHOLE, J. C

Sydney; The Trustees of the Public Library of New South Wales in association with Angus and Robertson; 1962.. First Edition; Roy 8vo; Volume I. pp. xxviii, 476; colour frontispiece,19 pages plates at end of volume, 9 pages colour illustrations, 6 text illustrations, 5 sketch maps; Volume II. pp. xviii, 406, 20 pages 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, both volumes uniformly bound in original maroon cloth, titles lettered in gilt on spines, dustjackets, top edges a little dusty otherwise very good copies. 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.