Cloth-filled and calf-bound ...

Valued at £8000-12,000 in a Sotheby’s sale of May 13 is a copy of the 1787, first and only edition of Alexander Shaw’s Catalogue of different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook...

Each copy of this curious work is a more or less unique assemblage and though this copy (bound in co…

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