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Paris, Editions Chez Dupart, an 2me-(1793), . Small 8vo. 392pp.Original calf with red and black labels, marbled endpapers, some splitting along external hinge, but a pleasnt trim copy. . Volume 2 only of a three volume work.

First edition of Sook's second voyage. Two volumes, quarto, Complete with frontispiece in Volume I by Hodges and 683 plates, charts, and folding maps. Contemporary linen spine with leather label over marbled boards

London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1777. Mispagination on xxvi, no loss. A few folding charts with small closed tears, vol.2 2A4 torn across page (no loss; professionally repaired), otherwise a fine copy. Text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in decorative period gilt diced calf.. Edition: first edition, Binding: contemporary diced calf with gilt tooled border, rebacked tastefully with matching diced calf with double-raised bands and six compartments, gilt nautical motifs, gilt text in 2 and 4. Board edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt. Endpapers marbled., Notes: The account of Cook’s second voyage. Captain Cook’s three great voyages from the basis for any collection of Pacific books. The success of Cook’s first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition, described in the present work, which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. Cook proved that there was no “Terra Australis” which supposedly lat between New Zealand… Read More