Museums target Cook discoveries at Sloane Street Auctions

A previously unrecorded family archive relating to Richard Grindall (1751-1820), an able seaman aboard Cook’s Second Voyage, surfaced for sale in London last week with spectacular results.

The 43 lots, many of them stored together in a box for more than a century, attracted bidding from…

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