COOK, Captain James (1728-1779). A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 ... the third edition. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. The third edition of the narrative of Cook's Second Voyage, describing the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle, further visits to New Zealand, and 'an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries' (Hill). It was on this voyage that Cook brought the Polynesian Omai back to England, where he became a celebrity within London society. His portrait appears as plate LVII, executed by William Hodges the expedition artist. Beddie 1226. 2 volumes, quarto (282 x 222mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, 63 engraved maps, charts and plates, of which 31 double-page and folding, folding letterpress table of vocabulary at end of vol. II (scattered spotting and offsetting throughout, a few plates cropped close, occasional minor tears to creasefolds). Contemporary tree calf gilt (rebacked and recornered, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Catherine Bouverie (ownership inscription on titles dated 1793, and with the armorial bookplates of the Bouverie family house, Delapre Abbey).
COOK, Captain James (1728-1779). A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 ... the third edition. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779. The third edition of the narrative of Cook's Second Voyage, describing the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle, further visits to New Zealand, and 'an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries' (Hill). It was on this voyage that Cook brought the Polynesian Omai back to England, where he became a celebrity within London society. His portrait appears as plate LVII, executed by William Hodges the expedition artist. Beddie 1226. 2 volumes, quarto (282 x 222mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. I, 63 engraved maps, charts and plates, of which 31 double-page and folding, folding letterpress table of vocabulary at end of vol. II (scattered spotting and offsetting throughout, a few plates cropped close, occasional minor tears to creasefolds). Contemporary tree calf gilt (rebacked and recornered, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance : Catherine Bouverie (ownership inscription on titles dated 1793, and with the armorial bookplates of the Bouverie family house, Delapre Abbey).
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