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Debarquement A Erramanga, L'une Des Nlles Hebrides.
Paris: circa 1778. Engraving, 155 x 280 mm., some rubbing. View from the French edition of Cook's Second Voyage towards the South Pole, showing the landing at Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides Islands.
Price (AUD):
$150.00
Ref: #4007922
The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman, Esquire… Who went on shore in the Adventure's large Cutter…
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778.
A very rare Cook fantasy and the first New Zealand novel
Octavo, with two etched plates; later quarter calf binding. First edition of one of the scarcest - and oddest - pieces of the entire Cook literature, now widely recognised as the first...
Price (AUD):
$18,750.00
Ref: #4504966
Reis naar de Zuidpool en rondom de weereld…
Utrecht & Amsterdam: G.T. van Paddenburg en Zoon & M. Schalekamp, 1793.
Revised Dutch version
Small quarto, frontispiece and two plates, with an additional handcoloured double-hemisphere world map bound in; a good copy in contemporary half calf, flat spine gilt. Scarce second Dutch edition of Cook's second voyage of discovery...
Price (AUD):
$4,400.00
Ref: #3712578
A hand-picked and extra-illustrated copy of the atlas of engravings for the official account of the second voyage.
London: Engravings printed by Boydell for the publishers Strahan and Cadell, 1777.
Cook second voyage atlas plates hand-picked by the master printer, with extra engravings
Large folio atlas, with the full complement of 64 charts and plates published to accompany the voyage account and two extras (see below), some folding...
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4403130
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A Voyage round the World… [<em>with</em>]<em> </em>Observations made during a Voyage Round the World…
London: B. White, 1777 & 1778.
The Forsters' two independent accounts of Cook's second voyage
Three volumes (the first work is in two volumes), quarto, with the large folding map in the first volume and the folding table of languages in the second work; bound without 1 p. list of...
Price (AUD):
$11,500.00
Ref: #4504288
The Death of Capt. Alexander Hood...
London: Jeffryes & Co, Ludgate Hill, 1 October, 1798.
A veteran of Cook's second voyage
Handcoloured mezzotint measuring 554 x 655 mm. (plate size). Splendid mezzotint depicting the dramatic death of Alexander Hood, a Royal Navy captain who served under Captain Cook in his early career. This appears to be...
Price (AUD):
$5,850.00
Ref: #4211259
A Voyage Round the World…
London: printed for W. Lane, 1781.
"The Officer": one of the earliest published accounts of the Antarctic
Quarto, with the cancel second-issue title-page slightly shorter than the text-block (as usual); a very good copy in old maroon cloth with spine label. Very rare: one of the earliest accounts of Cook's...
Price (AUD):
$38,500.00
Ref: #4403166
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance…
Paris: chez Buisson, 1787.
First edition in French
Two volumes, quarto, with a folding map and 16 engraved plates, some folding; contemporary mottled calf. Cook's second voyage and travels in South Africa, by the famous Swedish naturalist. This is the first edition in French, the most profusely illustrated of the...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #2903123
Journal of the Resolution's Voyage…
London: F. Newbery, 1775.
The first account, and first landscape view, of the Antarctic
Octavo, folding frontispiece map and five plates, leaf D2 a cancel as usual; in later polished light tan calf. First edition: the first full account of Cook's second voyage to have been published, and the earliest...
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #4503923