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NameA Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas : partly extracted from Mr. Anderson and Reinhold Forster's Observations, and the verbal account of some of the most knowing of the navigators : with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives.
ProductionAlexander Shaw; compiler; 1787; London
Classificationrare books, sample books
Materialstapa, book paper, graphite pencil, natural dye, leather, bark cloth
DimensionsApproximate: 186mm (width), 220mm (height), 16mm (depth)
Registration NumberRB001400
Credit lineGift of the Te Papa Foundation 2021, Purchased with Charles Disney Art Trust funds