Cook, Captain James--Hawkesworth, John.

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

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Description

An Account of the Voyages undertaken... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. London: Strahan and Cadell, 1773, 3 volumes, 29 engraved maps, charts and plates (only, of 52), most folding, directions to the binder leaves at end of vol.1, lacking 23 plates (though apparently with all the charts with the exception, as often, of Magellan Straits), vol.3 lacking base of spine
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Cook, Captain James. A Voyage towards the South Pole. London: Strahan and Cadell, 1777, 2 volumes, 16 engraved maps, charts and plates (only, of 64), most folding, printed folding table, lacking 48 plates (though apparently with all the charts and maps)

Cook, Captain James and James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London: Printed by Strahan, for Nicol and Cadell, 1784, 3 volumes text (only, lacking atlas), 24 maps, charts and plates (complete), folding printed table, advertisement leaf at end

Together 8 volumes, first editions, 4to (c.280 x 220mm.), late eighteenth-century diced russia, some covers detached, somewhat rubbed, one spine with loss at foot, others slightly chipped

Catalogue Note

An unusual set of first editions of Cook's Voyages which contains all the maps and charts called for and listed in the National Maritime Museum Catalogue (vol.3, no.312, 313 and 314), except Magellan Straits which is often lacking, but with only a few of the plates. Cook's last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean was published with most of the plates in a separate atlas volume (not present here) and it must be assumed that this set had the plates to the first and second voyages similarly bound, but which are now lost.