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A Map that Depicts Cook's Track as he Runs Down Latitude

A Map that Depicts Cook's Track as he Runs Down Longitude

The publication information as it appears in the 1779 printing of The History of Edinburgh by Hugo Arnot.

The errata page of William Creech's 1779 printing of The History of Edinburgh, including instructions to the bookbinder.

Map Depicting King George Sound

Map Depicting the Sandwich Isles

Map Depicting Southernmost Point of Voyages

Map Highlighting Track of Voyages

Sketch of Nootka Sound and Mount Saint Elias

Statue of Captain Cook in Victoria

The portrait of Robert Burns included in the 1788 Edinburgh edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect published by William Creech. 

The title page of the 1788 Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

The publication information page of William Creech's 1788 Edinburgh edition of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

The advertisement page of the 1815 edition of Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces, published after William Creech's death.

The title page of William Creech's 1782 printing of Account of the Institution and Progress of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland.

Generic image of a Rites cover page featured in Rites.

A side view of Rites Magazine. Pay attention to number of pages and the thinness of the paper.

The first step to opening Rites. You must unfold it once hortizontally.

The opening page and table of contents of Rites, which must be flipped vertically to be viewed.

The size of Rites fully opened was quite large, especially compared to it's compact shaped when fully folded.