Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N.
by Kaeppler, Adrienne L
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0910240248
- ISBN 13
- 9780910240246
- Seller
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About This Item
Honolulu: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1978. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, illustrated wrappers with mild shelf wear, 293 pages., 622 figs. including color plates. This publication presents the objects collected by Cook that were exhibited at the Museum. A truly dazzling catalogue that has scores of photographs of extraordinary, seldom seen objects (from the Bishop Museum's collection and on loan from the most important museum and private collections in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.), with full data for each object that appears in the photographs. Record # 378641
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 378641
- Title
- Artificial Curiosities: Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures Collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, R. N.
- Author
- Kaeppler, Adrienne L
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0910240248
- ISBN 13
- 9780910240246
- Publisher
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
- Place of Publication
- Honolulu
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- art, Anthropology, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- art;
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