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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1955, 1961, 1967, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. All volumes very good with moderate dust-soiling to top edges, jackets lightly worn at spine heads, moderately sunned. A handsome set. The Journals" complete in 4 volumes, large octavos, original gilt blue buckram; nearly 2000 pages of text, profusely illustrated with plates, maps, charts, etc. 12-page corrigenda pamphlet and single sheet laid in to first volume. "The Life" complete in 1 volume, (xv), 760 pp., illustrated; original blue buckram, jacket. First editions of the complete set in 4 volumes of the first publication of "Cook's own record of his voyages . . . faithfully reproduced from the manuscripts written in his own hand." (front jacket flap). Publication of the complete Journals was completed in 1967.

London, Longman, Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1821.. Octavo; Vol. I. xii, 398; frontispiece, folding map, 4 b/w. plates, Vol. II. viii, 368; 2 plates, Vol. III. viii, 372; frontispiece, 3 plates, Vol. IV. pp. viii, 304; frontispiece, fold-out table at rear, Vol. V. pp. viii, 472; 2 plates, Vol. VI. pp. xii, 503; 6 plates, Vol. VII. pp. xii, 462; frontispiece, 2 plates, foldout table at rear, one page directions for placing the plates, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, red moroccan spine title labels with green leather volume labels, title lettered in gilt, the first volume neatly repaired at the head of spine, some minor foxing to early pages, a very good attractive set. In 1768 when captain James Cook set sail on the first of three voyages to the South Seas, he carried with him secret orders from British Admiralty to seek 'a Continent or land of great extent' and to take possession of that country in the name of the King of Great Britain. The first voyage aboard the… Leer más

London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand. H. Hughs for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand, 1785. 8 Volumes, 4to; Atlas, folio. Vols: (11 1/4 x 9 inches). Atlas: (22 x 16 inches). Contemporary tan calf paneled with gold floral tooling, spines elaborately decorated with gilt foliate in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment with brown letter-piece in third compartment giving the years covered in each volume in gilt. Atlas bound to matching style in half-calf with contemporary marbled paper boards, spine in seven compartments with red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment and brown morocco lettering-piece in third compartment Provenance: Bookplates of Rev. William Goodall, Samuel Alexander Cooke, and G. N. R. A magnificent complete set of Cook's three voyages in eight volumes with very fine uniform original full calf bindings, paired with an unusually fine atlas. "Captain Cook's three great voyages form the… Leer más