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SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE
Catalogue of Very Important Manuscripts by or relating to Captain James Cook, Explorer, the Property of H.W.F. Bolckow ...
J. Davy and Sons London, 1923. Octavo, frontispiece, neatly annotated; in original green printed wrappers, protected in a recent folding cloth box. A very good copy of this auction catalogue from the 1923 Bolckow sale by Sothebys, one of the most important sales of manuscript materials relating to Captain Cook. Evidently this copy was owned by someone who attended the sale as the prices realised have been neatly recorded with annotations in pencil throughout.
The sale included the autograph manuscript of Cook's diary of the first voyage, correspondence with the Admiralty (including his "Secret Instructions" for the first voyage), the Log Book of both HMS Endeavour and Wallis' HMS Dolphin, and Cook's manuscript charts of Newfoundland. All of these items, as the manuscript notes attest, were purchased by William Herbert Ifould for the Mitchell Library in Sydney, for the princely sum of ?6780.
Bolckow was the MP for Middlesbrough from 1868 until his death in 1878. A wealthy industrialist, he built Marton Hall in Yorkshire - the grounds included the site of Cook's birthplace, which Bolckow marked with a granite urn. He was a famous and assiduous collector of Cook memorabilia, which he displayed as part of his collection in Marton Hall.
Beddie, 4747.
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