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COOK, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, [second voyage] London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777. 2 volumes, 4°, engraved portrait frontispiece and 60 engraved maps only (of 63), charts and plates (lacking plates XIV, LVII and LX, plate III torn in half but present, plate LIX with medium tear, some light spotting, fraying and marginal cropping), contemporary tree calf, spines gilt-tooled with red and green calf lettering pieces (somewhat rubbed, joints splitting, wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION. Mitchell Library 1216. (2)
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