COOK, James. 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, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, 2 volumes, 4° (292 x 230mm.), FIRST EDITION, engraved portrait frontispiece, 63 engraved plates, maps and charts (imprint of frontispiece cropped, a few other plate imprints shaved, outer margin of frontispiece, title, most plates and text dampstained and brittle, lower margin of a few text leaves and 7 plates heavily wormed with loss, outer margin of one plate damaged with slight loss of image, marginal soiling), contemporary calf (worn). [Cox I, p. 59; Holmes 24; Sabin 16245] With John Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of his present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere (3 vols., London, 1773, lacking all the plates). (5)