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COOK, James (1728-79) & James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784. 4 volumes comprising 3 text vols. and atlas, text vols. 4° (290 x 230mm.), atlas 2° (560 x 390mm.), Text vols. containing 24 engraved plates and charts, 13 folding, one folding table, atlas vol. containing large folding engraved general chart and 62 plates and charts after Henry Roberts and Webber, one folding. (Some offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light browning and spotting). Text vols. in contemporary speckled calf, gilt-stamped armorials on covers with motto "Avito Honore Viret", spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces; atlas vol. in 19th-century half morocco gilt (Text vols. rebacked with later spines gilt, rubbed and scuffed, atlas vol. with extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. A. Stuart Wortley & Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe (armorial bookplates).
COOK, James (1728-79) & James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784. 4 volumes comprising 3 text vols. and atlas, text vols. 4° (290 x 230mm.), atlas 2° (560 x 390mm.), Text vols. containing 24 engraved plates and charts, 13 folding, one folding table, atlas vol. containing large folding engraved general chart and 62 plates and charts after Henry Roberts and Webber, one folding. (Some offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light browning and spotting). Text vols. in contemporary speckled calf, gilt-stamped armorials on covers with motto "Avito Honore Viret", spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces; atlas vol. in 19th-century half morocco gilt (Text vols. rebacked with later spines gilt, rubbed and scuffed, atlas vol. with extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. A. Stuart Wortley & Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe (armorial bookplates).

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COOK, James (1728-79) & James KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784. 4 volumes comprising 3 text vols. and atlas, text vols. 4° (290 x 230mm.), atlas 2° (560 x 390mm.), Text vols. containing 24 engraved plates and charts, 13 folding, one folding table, atlas vol. containing large folding engraved general chart and 62 plates and charts after Henry Roberts and Webber, one folding. (Some offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light browning and spotting). Text vols. in contemporary speckled calf, gilt-stamped armorials on covers with motto "Avito Honore Viret", spines with red and green morocco lettering-pieces; atlas vol. in 19th-century half morocco gilt (Text vols. rebacked with later spines gilt, rubbed and scuffed, atlas vol. with extremities rubbed). Provenance: J. A. Stuart Wortley & Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe (armorial bookplates).

FIRST EDITION. Holmes 47: "This 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"; Mitchell Library 1543.
With James Cook's A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure (London, 1778, 2 vols.) and Andrew Kippis's The Life of Captain James Cook (London, 1788). (7)

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