Cook's Voyages and the Peoples of the South Pacific by Hugh Cobbe

Cook's Voyages and the Peoples of the South Pacific by Hugh Cobbe

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Hugh Cobbe joined the British Museum Department of Manuscripts in 1967, where he was a curator of manuscript music and maps. After the department passed to the British Library, he was in due course Head of Publications in the Library for seven years before being appointed Head of Music Collections
in 1985, a post which he held until 2001. He was then made Head of British Collections until his retirement. He was for 16 years a Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and was President of the Royal Musical Association 2002-2005. He is Deputy Chairman of the R.V.W. Trust and a Director of the
Vaughan Williams Estate. He was appointed OBE in 2003 for services to libraries.
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ISBN 13 9780714115511
ISBN 10 0714115517
Title Cook's Voyages and the Peoples of the South Pacific
Author Hugh Cobbe
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher British Museum Press
Year published 1979-02-01
Number of pages 160
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