COOK, James & James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken ... 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 [Third Voyage], London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nichol & T. Cadell, 1784, 3 volumes (text) and one atlas volume, 4° and 2°, FIRST EDITION, 24 engraved plates in text, 13 folding, atlas with 61 engraved plates and one double-page chart only (of 2, plates stamped on verso, the first plate also with small stamp on recto, dampstaining to some lower margins of the atlas affecting the engraving in two cases, some margins also affected by small holes or slight tears, text volumes with title perforation and other library marks, perforation mark repeated on one leaf of text in vols. I & II, offsetting, spotting and occasional soil marks to text throughout, d2 of vol. I cleanly torn and repaired on verso, 3G1-3H4 of vol. II a little bumped at outer margin, a1 of vol. III with short tear at head), non uniform binding, text volumes in later roan-backed mottled boards (joints heavily rubbed), atlas volume in contemporary grey marbled boards (detached). [Cox I, p. 63; Holmes 47; Sabin 16250] Provenance: JCL

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COOK, James & James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken ... 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 [Third Voyage], London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nichol & T. Cadell, 1784, 3 volumes (text) and one atlas volume, 4° and 2°, FIRST EDITION, 24 engraved plates in text, 13 folding, atlas with 61 engraved plates and one double-page chart only (of 2, plates stamped on verso, the first plate also with small stamp on recto, dampstaining to some lower margins of the atlas affecting the engraving in two cases, some margins also affected by small holes or slight tears, text volumes with title perforation and other library marks, perforation mark repeated on one leaf of text in vols. I & II, offsetting, spotting and occasional soil marks to text throughout, d2 of vol. I cleanly torn and repaired on verso, 3G¹-3H⁴ of vol. II a little bumped at outer margin, a1 of vol. III with short tear at head), non uniform binding, text volumes in later roan-backed mottled boards (joints heavily rubbed), atlas volume in contemporary grey marbled boards (detached). [Cox I, p. 63; Holmes 47; Sabin 16250] Provenance: JCL

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"The long-delayed official account of the third voyage was so eagerly awaited by the public that it was sold out on the third day after publication, and though the published price was f4-14s.-6d as much as 10 guineas was offered by disappointed would-be purchasers" [Holmes]

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