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Cook James - A Voyage Towards The South Pole and Round The World
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Lot Details
First Edition (2 Volumes), Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775, Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In 2 Volumes. First edition, W Strahan and T Cadell, London, 1777, leaf size 22.5 x 28cm, Vol I: xl, 378pp, frontis port, 36 charts and plates, some folding. Vol II: 396pp, 27 charts and plates, some folding, tree calf, rebacked, later EPs & applied spine title labels, ornate gilt spine compartments, surface scratching to boards & corner losses, textblock trimmed, small piercing to FEP of Vol I, some offsetting as usual, episodic foxing, closed tear to folding Chart of the Southern Hemisphere. Armorial BP of Adolphus Tiffany over mounted front pastedown. From the introduction: "Whether the unexplored part of the Southern Hemisphere be only an immense mass of water, or contain another continent, as specualtive geography seemed to suggest, was a question which had long engaged the attention, not only of learned men, but of most maritime powers of Europe" G+ Ex Bethunes, Lot 175, 21st March, 2010.
