Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part I, A-C

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Lot 289
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Cook, Captain James--Bayly, William, editor

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • The Original Astronomical Observations made in the course of a Voyage to the Northern Pacific Ocean, for the discovery of a north east or north west passage… By Captain James Cooke [sic]… Lieutenant James King; and Mr. William Bayly… published by the order of the Commissioners of Longitude, at the expence of whom the observations were made. London: William Richardson, 1782
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (288 x 223mm.), vii, [4], 352pp., folding engraved plate, tree calf gilt, flat spine tooled gilt, marbled endpapers, title with neatly repaired tear, plate lightly offset

Literature

BCJC 1542; Forbes 40 ('Bayley' [sic]); Holmes 41; Sabin 4079; not in Hill

Catalogue Note

RARE ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS OF COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE. AE records no copy offered at auction since 1935. Bayly, previously the assistant to Astronomer Royal Neville Maskelyne, was the astronomer on both Cook’s second and third voyages.