"Important Reference Books from the Parks Collection of Pacific Voyages"

BONWICK, James.
Captain Cook in New South Wales, or the Mystery of Naming Botany Bay.
London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1901.

Octavo, title page a little browned, last few leaves creased at top corner, a good copy in recent boards with original...

Study by the educator and general writer Bonwick of Cook's manuscript record, comparing his writing with the...

Beddie, 726.

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[COLNETT] MANNING, W.R.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1904.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1905.

Thick octavo, a fine copy in contemporary half black roan (scuffed), spine lettered in gilt.

This bound annual volume of the American Historical Association contains W. R. Manning's essay of 200 pages The...

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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] WATSON, Frederick.
Lieutenant James Cook.
Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1933.

Slim octavo, mild foxing, good copy in original printed wrappers (rubbed).

Controversial attack on the censorship and revision of Cook's journals by Hawkesworth to suit the political and...

Beddie, 731.

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[COOK: LIFE] GOULD, R.T.
Captain Cook.
London, Duckworth, 1935.

Octavo; a good copy in the original red cloth, some wear especially to spine.

First edition of this well-regarded modern biography of Cook. The Cook scholar Maurice Holmes considered it a...

Beddie, 2092; Holmes, 148.

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[COOK: LIFE] KITSON, Arthur.
Captain James Cook R.N., F.R.S. The Circumnavigator.
New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1907.

Thick octavo, frontispiece, numerous plates, many photographic, bookplate; a good copy in original gilt green cloth,...

First American edition of Kitson's ground-breaking life of Captain Cook, published the same year as the London...

Beddie, 2069 (London edition).

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[COOK: MEDALS] MIRA, W. J. D.
James Cook – His Coins & Medals.
Sydney, published by the author, 1970.

Slim octavo booklet, 44 pages illustrated, a good copy in creased original printed wrappers.

Signed by the author. A comprehensive analysis of the coins and medals arising from Captain Cook's discoveries,...

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[COOK: SCIENCE] ROSE, Professor J. Holland, Sir Frank DYSON and others.
The Geographical Journal Volume LXXIII.
London, The Royal Geographical Society, 1929.

Large thick octavo, numerous plates and maps (some folding), mild foxing of page-edges, joints lightly rubbed yet a...

A handsome copy of this scholarly journal containing four articles relating to Captain Cook, being Captain James...

Beddie, 411, 410, 814.

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[COOK: SECOND VOYAGE] CAMERON, H.C. and others.
The Geographical Journal Volume 115 and 116.
London, John Murray for the Royal Geographical Society, 1950.

Quarto, two issues bound in navy cloth, numerous plates, five folding maps, fine copies.

Includes H. C. Cameron's fascinating essay The Failure of the Philosophers to Sail with Cook in the...

Beddie, 1318.

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FORBES, David W.
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900.
Honolulu and Sydney, Hordern House and University of Hawaii Press, 1999.

Four volumes, quarto; half-bound in red Nigerian goat skin, with the author's inscription.

This four-volume, deluxe issue bibliography of Hawaiiana begins with the earliest period of European discovery,...

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HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society for the year 1924.
Honolulu, Paradise of the Pacific Press, 1925.

Slim octavo pamphlet, frontispiece, 26 pages, a good copy in original printed wrappers with markings from the...

Contains a very short article on medals struck in commemoration of Captain Cook, by Stephen W. Phillips. Of additional...

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