Lot Essay
Cook's third and last journey, an astonishing feat which far exceeded the instruction to make 'discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere'.
Details
Cook (James) and James King: A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, [the Third Voyage], 3 vols., second edition, 4to, by H.Hughes, for G.Nicol and T.Cadell, 1785 [cf. Mitchell 1552], 61 engraved plates after John Weber, many double-page and folding, 26 maps and charts, most folding, together 87 plates (large 'General Chart' repaired, occasional light spotting), contemporary marbled calf, 6 section spine, tooled with three-masted ship motif (rebacked with old spine laid-down). (3)