THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.: COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779) Published by London 1773-1785. (1785) ALL FIRST EDITIONS OF COOK’S THREE VOYAGES PLUS ATLAS & Kippis Life of Captain James Cook,

THE THREE VOYAGES OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.

COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779)

Published by London 1773-1785. (1785)

ALL FIRST EDITIONS

OF COOK'S THREE VOYAGES PLUS ATLAS & Kippis Life of Captain James Cook,

Cook, James. Set of all three voyages, all in first editions, and a uniformly bound copy of the first edition of Kippis' LIFE. Atlas recently bound in period full calf.

ATLAS, 2 large folding charts & 61 plates with nearly all the original tissue guards in place. Recently bound in full calf expertly executed to match the text vols. A near fine set.

Together 8 vols. text, med. 4to, & folio atlas with original tissues, in all 202 fine, engraved maps, charts, portraits, costume plates, views, etc.; the text volumes uniformly re-backed in contemporary style,

First Voyage: AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, AND SUCCESSIVELY PERFORMED BY COMMODORE BYRON, CAPTAIN WALLIS, CAPTAIN CARTERET AND CAPTAIN COOK, IN THE DOLPHIN, THE SWALLOW AND THE ENDEAVOUR: DRAWN UP FROM THE JOURNALS WHICH WERE KEPT BY THE SEVERAL COMMANDERS, AND FROM THE PAPERS OF JOSEPH BANKS, ESQ; BY JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL.D. IN THREE VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS, AND A GREAT VARIETY OF CHARTS AND MAPS RELATIVE TO COUNTRIES NOW FIRST DISCOVERED, OR HITHERTO BUT IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. London: Printed for W. Strahan; & T. Cadell in the Strand. M DCC LXXIII. 3 vols., 4to. First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [xii], xxxvi, 140(last blank), [361]-676; 21 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. II, pp. xvi, 410; 22 charts & plates (mostly folding); Vol. III, pp. [vi], 411-800 (last blank); 9 charts & plates (mostly folding); contemporary full speckled calf (neatly re-backed, see below); some occasional spotting and offsetting from plates, but a very good, generally clean set. The first edition, without the later added chart of the Streights of Magellan, and with the Directions for Placing the Cuts added at end.

Second Voyage: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE AND ROUND THE WORLD. PERFORMED IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND ADVENTURE, IN THE YEARS 1772, 1773, 1774, AND 1775. WRITTEN BY JAMES COOK, COMMANDER OF THE RESOLUTION. IN WHICH IS INCLUDED, CAPTAIN FURNEAUX'S NARRATIVE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS IN THE ADVENTURE DURING THE SEPARATION OF THE SHIPS. IN TWO VOLUMES. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND CHARTS, AND A VARIETY OF PORTRAITS OF PERSONS AND VIEWS OF PLACES, DRAWN DURING THE VOYAGE BY MR. HODGES, AND ENGRAVED BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand. MDCCLXXVII. 2 vols., 4to. First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xl, 378; portrait frontis., 36 charts & plates; Vol. II, pp. [viii], 396; 27 charts and plates; 2 plates and 2 charts with imprints cropped or shaved by the binder (as often, binders had to trim the large plates to fit them in); contemporary full speckled calf (neatly rebacked, see below); a very good, clean set.

Third Voyage: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. TO DETERMINE THE POSITION AND EXTENT OF THE WEST SIDE OF NORTH AMERICA; ITS DISTANCE FROM ASIA; AND THE PRACTICABILITY OF A NORTHERN PASSAGE TO EUROPE. PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAINS COOK, CLERKE, AND GORE, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND DISCOVERY; IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, AND 1780. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. AND II. WRITTEN BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, F.R.S. VOL. III. BY CAPTAIN JAMES KING, LL.D. AND F.R.S. ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND CHARTS, FROM THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS MADE BY LIEUT HENRY ROBERTS, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAIN COOK; AND WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF PORTRAITS OF PERSONS, VIEWS OF PLACES, AND HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF REMARKABLE INCIDENTS, DRAWN BY MR. WEBBER DURING THE VOYAGE, AND ENGRAVED BY THE MOST EMINENT ARTISTS. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan: For G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. MDCCLXXXIV. 3 vols., 4to, & atlas, large folio. First Edition; Vol. I, pp. [viii](title, verso blank, & Contents), xcvi(Introduction & List of Plates), 422(last blank); 7 charts & views (5 folding); Vol. II, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [x](Contents), 550(last blank); 12 charts & plates (7 folding); Vol. III, pp. [ii](title, verso blank), [x](Contents, last blank), [ii](Appendix & Erratum, verso blank), 558+[2](advertisement for complete sets of Cook's voyages, verso blank); 6 charts (2 folding), folding comparative table of languages, 7 appendices (Pp. 491-558); contemporary full calf, neatly rebacked (see below); some offsetting of plates to text, but generally very fine and clean.

ATLAS, 2 large folding charts & 61 plates with nearly all the original tissue guards in place. Recently bound in full calf expertly executed to match the text vols. A near fine set.

Together 8 vols. text, med. 4to, & folio atlas; in all 202 fine, engraved maps, charts, portraits, costume plates, views, etc.; the text volumes uniformly re-backed in contemporary style,

Life: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, by Andrew Kippis. London, 1788. Quarto, pp. xvi, 527 [1], frontis. portrait, half title.

The copies of Brigadier-General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay of Lockinge, 1st Baron Wantage (1832-1901), British soldier, politician, benefactor to Wantage, one of the founders of the British National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War latterly called the British Red Cross Society, for which he obtained the patronage of Queen Victoria. Awarded the Victoria Cross in 1854 for his actions at the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War. All volumes with his Astra Castra Numen Lumen circular armorial bookplate; from his Overstone Park estate, with that bookplate, as well. It is a bookseller's convenient stratagem to say that the second and later editions are "preferred" – reset, sometimes on better paper, and perhaps slightly different-looking layout. But the seconds are still NOT the first editions of three of the most important voyages ever performed. Sets in contemporary bindings of all first editions of Cook's voyages have become very uncommon on the market.