Vie du Capitaine Cook
By: traduite de l'anglois du docteur Kippis, membre de la Société royale de Londres
Contributors: Castéra, Jean-Henri, 1749-1838
Publisher: Rue des Poitevins. Hôtel du Thou
Published: 1789
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Voyages around the world; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Work titles: Life of Captain James Cook
Notes: Translation, by Jean-Henri Castéra, of: The life of Captain James Cook, first printed London, 1788.

"Lettre du traducteur de la Vie du Capitaine Cook, a Monsieur Garat, professeur d'histoire au lycée", v 1, p. [i]-xlviii, is signed: Castera.

Sabin cites a two volume edition printed in Paris in 1789 with differing number of pages in the volumes.

Pagination: v. 1: [4], lvi, 458, [2] p.; v. 2: [4], 497 [i.e. 499], [1] p.

Errors in paging: v. 2, p. 499 misnumbered 497.

Signatures: v. 1: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) a-c⁸ d⁴ A-2E⁸ 2F⁶ (2F6 blank); v. 2: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) A-2H⁸ 2I²

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces.

Cf. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 37955.

Cioranescu, A. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle, 16111.

Mitchell Library, Sydney. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, 37.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired as a gift of the JCB Associates.