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First Edition Book – Cook, The Discoverer by Georg Forster This is a beautiful book for maritime history and Captain James Cook fans. Cook the Discoverer. An Attempted Memorial. Published by Horden House and the Australian National Maritime Museum, 2007 1st edition limited to 1050 copies. No. 6 in the Australian Maritime Series for the Australian National Maritime Museum. A memoir of Captain Cook written by Georg Forster, first published in Berlin in 1787. An introductory essay by Dr. Nigel Erskine, Curator of Exploration at the Australian National Maritime Museum. The book contains both the original German text and a new English translation. The German text is an exact facsimile of the original 1787 publication "Cook der Entdecker. Versuch eines Denkmals" and is printed in gothic script. 276 pages with 9 illustrations. Bound in quarter tan kangaroo with marbled papered boards. Gilt title on burgundy vignette on spine. 248mm x 212mm. Superb condition.