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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 James Cook and Matthew Lane...
Price (AUD):
$1,250.00
Ref: #4311675
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):
$72,000.00
Ref: #4504379
A Chart of the Islands discovered in the Neighbourhood of Otaheite.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1780. Engraved chart, 185 x 355 mm, with decorative title cartouche in the upper right corner. An early map of the Society Islands in the South Pacific published by Alexander Hogg to illustrate the voyages and discoveries of the sea captains Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook...
Price (AUD):
$225.00
Ref: #4012366
Chart of the Friendly Islands.
London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1786. Engraved chart, 220 x 330 mm. Chart showing Cook's route around the Tongan Islands, which he discovered in 1773. The Islands are also known as the Friendly Islands because of the reception that Captain Cook received. Published for Anderson's New, Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages round the World.
Price (AUD):
$175.00
Ref: #4012365
Carte d'une Partie de la Cote de la Nle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Cape Tribulation to Cape York
Engraved map, 295 x 335 mm.; original folds. French edition of Cook's chart, which was published the previous year in an engraving by John Cheevers after Cook's original for Hawkesworth's official account of the first voyage. This was the earliest...
Price (AUD):
$1,400.00
Ref: #4504222
Carte de la Nlle. Galles Meridle…
Paris: Saillant et Nyon, 1774.
Point Hicks to Cape York
Engraved map, 370 x 785 mm.; original folds; with good margins; mounted. Perhaps Cook's most famous chart, here in its first French version, prepared for the French language edition of the official account of the Endeavour voyage. The magnificent sweep...
Price (AUD):
$2,200.00
Ref: #2904309
Chart of Part of the Coast of New South Wales…
London: 1773.
The Queensland coast charted by Cook on the Endeavour
Engraved map, 325 x 360 mm. Mounted. The earliest charting of the coast of Queensland, commemorating one of the most memorable passages of Cook's first voyage. This map, prepared by Cook himself, details the tracks and anchorages of the...
Price (AUD):
$2,850.00
Ref: #3502575
Three works relating to the transit of Venus…
London: The Royal Society, 1771.
Captain Cook's astronomy printed for the Royal Society
Small quarto, pp. 397-436, with a folding plate and the title page for the Philosophical Transactions Vol. LXI bound in; in marbled wrappers. Three important articles relating to some of the chief scientific concerns of Cook's Endeavour...
Price (AUD):
$4,200.00
Ref: #4205931
Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World…
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 Journal of a Voyage round the World…
London: Becket and De Hondt, 1771.
Earliest account of the Endeavour voyage: from the library of George III
Quarto, complete with the rare dedication leaf; trimmed to a square octavo size, with pages cut close to the text; an unusual copy but in fact most attractive, bound in contemporary polished...
Price (AUD):
$48,500.00
Ref: #4503929
… Journal d'un Voyage autour du Monde, Fait par MM. Banks & Solander…
Paris: Saillant & Nyon, 1772.
First French edition
Octavo, blind-stamped ex-libris to half title; contemporary French marbled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label. A fine copy of the first French account of Cook's Endeavour voyage, and the first French book on the east coast of Australia. Fréville.....
Price (AUD):
$5,500.00
Ref: #3812970
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
Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks Åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775…
Upsala: Johan Edman, 1783. Small octavo, with the half-title, early owner's names to preliminaries, contemporary navy-blue papered boards, manuscript label. A very rare edition, a Swedish-language compliation derived from both the official account of Cook's second voyage and Georg Forster's unofficial Voyage round the World. Issued the same year as...
Price (AUD):
$2,750.00
Ref: #3806716
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
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 Cook's third voyage, here in outstanding contemporary French bindings bearing the arms.....
Price (AUD):
$14,500.00
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, and others, 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 chart...
Price (AUD):
$6,600.00
Ref: #3712595
Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens.
London: Frank Kerslake, 1879.
Dickens Bibliography
Octavo; original wrappers bound in, half morocco. First edition of this early bibliography. A brief bibliography had been published in Forster's Life (1873), but this work is expressly designed to supersede it. It proposes, Cook writes, 'to give the Bibliophilist or Collector a thorough...
Price (AUD):
$120.00
Ref: #1500328
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
London: Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, Fielding, & Hardy, 1784.
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