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A set of the three voyage accounts…
London: 1773-1784.
Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform contemporary provenance
Together eight volumes, quarto, and two folio Atlases; uniformly bound in contemporary polished diced russia leather, decorated in blind and gilt, atlases in half binding with marbled paper sides matching the endpapers of the text volumes; all volumes.....
Price (AUD):
$68,500.00
Ref: #4504379
Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage…
London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
First publication of the Corner Journal
Quarto, with portrait frontispiece, four maps and plates bound in as well as three large folding charts in rear endpaper sleeve; in the original polished wooden boards, morocco spine lettered in gilt. A wonderful Cook relic: one of just fifty.....
Price (AUD):
$7,500.00
Ref: #4303378
A Chart of the Banks of Newfoundland…
London: printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennet, 53 Fleet Street, 1775.
James Cook proves his worth
Engraved chart, 540 x 705 mm. with simple early handcolouring to the coastlines. Attractive large-format map of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, derived from the survey work of Chabert (1750-51) and Fleurieu (1769).....
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4311675
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):
$3,850.00
Ref: #3712578
A Voyage towards the South Pole…
London: Strahan and Cadell, 1777.
Cook's second voyage: to the Southern Ocean
Two volumes, quarto, with frontispiece portrait and 63 engraved charts, portraits and plates; in a handsome contemporary binding of russia leather, ornately decorated in blind and gilt. Cook's great second voyage: the official account, prepared for publication by.....
Price (AUD):
$14,850.00
Ref: #4205911
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