Smith (Bernard)

(29 cm), xiii (1), 370 pp., 220 halftone and 32 colour illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers (paperback). - Revised second edition of a work first published in 1960 by the Oxford University Press. The author concentrates on the way in which the artists of Cook’s three voyages and their successors of many nationalities depicted the South Pacific (the islands of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia as well as Australia). ¶ Very good, unmarked copy.