COOK, Captain JAMES. [First voyage:] JOHN HAWKESWORTH. An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773, 3 vols. , FIRST EDITION, 52 engraved maps, charts and views (of which 38 folding), Mitchell 648; [Second voyage:] JAMES COOK 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, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777, 2 vols. , FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait and 63 engraved maps, charts and plates (34 folding), Mitchell 1216; [Third voyage:] JAMES COOK and JAMES KING A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere... London: H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell 1785, 4 vols., including large folio atlas , Second edition, 2 engraved portraits and 87 engraved maps, charts and plates (63 of them bound in the atlas), Mitchell 1553 -- ANDREW KIPPIS. The Life of Captain James Cook London: for G. Nicol and G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, Mitchell 32; together 10 vols., 4to, the atlas in large folio, uniformly bound in nineteenth-century green half morocco, smooth spines gilt in compartments with anchor motifs, t.e.g., some deckle edges uncut, extremities a bit rubbed, atlas joints and extremities more severely rubbed with some leather loss, spines a trifle faded, 3-inch tear to pl. 11 in vol. 2 of First Voyage and fold break to a map in same volume, fraying and minor marginal repairs to pls. 36 and 37 in v. 3 (pl. 36 caption cropped), a few borders shaved in v. 2 of Second Voyage, folding pl. 20 in same vol. glued shut on verso, short tears at mount edges of a few maps, one or two small holes or repaired tears to text leaves, occasional faint offsetting, mostly marginal foxing to atlas plates, very occasional foxing elsewhere . Ink-stamps of Tho. Hutches in margins of plates in atlas volume. (10)
COOK, Captain JAMES. [First voyage:] JOHN HAWKESWORTH. An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773, 3 vols. , FIRST EDITION, 52 engraved maps, charts and views (of which 38 folding), Mitchell 648; [Second voyage:] JAMES COOK 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, London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777, 2 vols. , FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait and 63 engraved maps, charts and plates (34 folding), Mitchell 1216; [Third voyage:] JAMES COOK and JAMES KING A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere... London: H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell 1785, 4 vols., including large folio atlas , Second edition, 2 engraved portraits and 87 engraved maps, charts and plates (63 of them bound in the atlas), Mitchell 1553 -- ANDREW KIPPIS. The Life of Captain James Cook London: for G. Nicol and G. G. J. and J. Robinson 1788, FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait, Mitchell 32; together 10 vols., 4to, the atlas in large folio, uniformly bound in nineteenth-century green half morocco, smooth spines gilt in compartments with anchor motifs, t.e.g., some deckle edges uncut, extremities a bit rubbed, atlas joints and extremities more severely rubbed with some leather loss, spines a trifle faded, 3-inch tear to pl. 11 in vol. 2 of First Voyage and fold break to a map in same volume, fraying and minor marginal repairs to pls. 36 and 37 in v. 3 (pl. 36 caption cropped), a few borders shaved in v. 2 of Second Voyage, folding pl. 20 in same vol. glued shut on verso, short tears at mount edges of a few maps, one or two small holes or repaired tears to text leaves, occasional faint offsetting, mostly marginal foxing to atlas plates, very occasional foxing elsewhere . Ink-stamps of Tho. Hutches in margins of plates in atlas volume. (10)
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