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Troisième voyage de Cook, ou Voyage à l'Océan Pacifique…
Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1785.
First French quarto edition
Five quarto volumes, including the final atlas volume containing a total of 88 engraved maps and plates;uniform contemporary full calf armorial bindings. The desirable first French edition of the official account of Cook's third voyage, here in outstanding contemporary French bindings.....
Price (AUD):
$12,500.00
Ref: #4401834
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol... and T. Cadell, 1784.
The superb official narrative of Cook's third voyage
Three volumes, quarto, and an atlas, folio, with altogether 87 engraved plates and maps, of which 63 appear in the atlas; contemporary diced russia leather, flat spines gilt.....
Price (AUD):
$18,500.00
Ref: #4401862
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Fielding, & Hardy, 1784-5.
First octavo edition
Four volumes, octavo, with two folding maps and 49 plates, in a smart modern binding of polished half-calf with gilt labels, with the often discarded half-titles present. First octavo edition of the third voyage account, with a large.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3712595
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Joseph Banks, about the publication of Cook's third voyage…
Windsor Castle: 6 October 1782.
Cook's "meddlesome editor" to Joseph Banks about the third voyage engravings
Single page, quarto, numbered "201" at the top right-hand corner; inscribed in an early nineteenth century hand "To Sir Joseph Banks" A fine letter from the editor of Cook's third voyage to Sir Joseph.....
Price (AUD):
$9,850.00
Ref: #4504772
An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook…
London: G. Robinson, J. Sewell; and J. Debrett, 1782.
Important alternative account, with a chapter on Tasmania and early Pacific views
Two volumes, octavo, with a folding chart and 21 engraved plates; a fine copy in contemporary calf gilt. First edition: an attractive set of this rare account – the.....
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #4003697
An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook… The Third Edition…
London: G. Robinson, J. Sewell; and J. Debrett, 1784.
A private account of Cook's third voyage
Two volumes, octavo, with a folding chart and 21 engraved plates, bound with half-titles and directions for placing the cuts; in twentieth-century red morocco, gilt. A most attractive set: this is the uncommon third.....
Price (AUD):
$6,400.00
Ref: #4503908
The fortunate escape of Capt. Cook from the furious natives…
London: circa 1790. Engraving, handcoloured, page size approx 160 x 240 mm; tear across the bottom of the plate has been expertly repaired. View from Cook's Second Voyage to the Pacific 1772-1775, showing Cook leaving Erramanga, one of the New Hebrides in 1774 by row boat with hostile natives ashore.....
Price (AUD):
$750.00
Ref: #3003089
Sammandrag af Captain Jacob Cooks tredje Resa…
Uppsala: Johan Edman, 1787.
First Swedish account
Octavo, with a folding map, woodcut vignette at top of first text page, with the advertisement leaf; in contemporary pale half calf over speckled paper boards, spine panelled in gilt, original label. The rare first Swedish version of the official account of Cook's.....
Price (AUD):
$3,200.00
Ref: #3806709
Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: F. Newbery, 1781.
First full account in English of Cook's third voyage
Octavo, with a folding map and five engraved plates (one folding); the leaf D4 cancelled as usual and replaced with four unsigned leaves; contemporary polished calf with spine label "Newberry's Collection Voyages" and the volume number '6'.....
Price (AUD):
$9,000.00
Ref: #4503917
A Catalogue of the Different Specimens of Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook…
London: Alexander Shaw, 1787.
Exceptional artefact from Cook's Pacific voyages: with 56 specimens of native tapa cloth including a suite of 17 extra specimens, most of them Hawaiian
Quarto (220 x 164 mm.), pp [8, comprising title and three leaves of descriptions], with 56 tapa cloth specimens interleaved between or.....
Price (AUD):
$450,000.00
Ref: #4504181
Imprest Document, a receipt for a Bill of Exchange at the Cape of Good Hope.
London, Victualling Office, 18 June 1777.
Rare document from Cook's third and last voyage
Manuscript in ink on official paper (watermark "GR" with a crown), written in ink on one side of a single sheet, 239 x 201 mm, small folio. Rare document relating to the provisioning of Cook's third.....
Price (AUD):
$24,500.00
Ref: #4401840
![A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka]. COOK: THIRD VOYAGE, John...](/pictures/thumb/3611651.jpg?v=1580795385)
[A View of the Town and Harbour of St Peter and St Paul, in Kamtschatka].
London: circa 1784.
Rare proof impression
Engraving, 253 x 533 mm. to plate mark, paper size 290 x 540 mm.; a little light old creasing at right side; in fine condition. Rare proof impression of one of the most atmospheric views made by Webber to illustrate Cook's third voyage: the.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #3611651
Balaguns or Summer Habitations…
London: Boydell, 1808.
Summer habitations in far eastern Russia
Handcoloured aquatint, 330 x 455 mm. Fine view of the island of Cracatoa from Webber's magnificent series of views of the Pacific. This handcoloured aquatint is from the 1808 publication Views of the South Seas, and like other views by John.....
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #4504359
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du monde…
Berne: Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1783.
The rare second edition
Octavo, woodcut vignette on title; contemporary continental (?Swiss) mottled calf, spine with small floral device gilt in compartments between raised bands, double orange labels just chipped at edges; a nice copy. The second French edition, and very scarce. Beddie records only.....
Price (AUD):
$18,000.00
Ref: #3503669
Dernier Voyage du Capitaine Cook…
Berne: chez la nouvelle Société Typographique, 1782.
Including an eye-witness account of Cook's death
Octavo; a very good, clean copy in contemporary French half calf. The first and best French edition of this important personal account of Cook's third voyage, and extremely scarce: a most attractive copy. This edition contains.....
Price (AUD):
$21,000.00
Ref: #4401814
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Das Leben des Malers Johann Weber von Bern…
Zurich: n.p., 1821.
Elusive biography of the great Cook voyage artist, with portrait and view
Square octavo, aquatint frontispiece, 13pp. with engraved oval portrait at head of first page; a fine copy in the original printed brown wrappers, preserved in a folding bookform case. Only edition: with the famous engraved.....
Price (AUD):
$5,400.00
Ref: #4302366
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Fielding, & Hardy, 1784-5.
Sleek and adventurous edition
Octavo, four volumes, with a portrait frontispiece, large folding chart and a total of 49 plates; recent mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands. A handsomely bound set of the first octavo edition derived from the official.....
Price (AUD):
$4,850.00
Ref: #4107118