[Rarebooks] FS - Cook's Third Voyage complete 4 vols. 1st edition

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*COOK, Captain James [Vols. I and II] / Captain James King [Vol. III] / 
[Vol. IV - Plate Volume]*
/* A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY to the PACIFIC OCEAN.*/
London, W. and A. Strahan, 1784. Complete four volume set of the first 
edition.
¶ Although in the original boards, this set requires re-binding, as the 
boards are detached (but present). The List of Plates, normally found in 
volume I (pp. xci to xcvi), is included in the fourth volume. Volume I 
is otherwise complete, and all seven maps on six plates (four folding), 
and one folding plate, are present. Volume II contains all eleven maps 
or views (six folding). Volume III contains an early worm hole to the 
lower outside corner of the first few pages, not affecting text. All six 
maps and plates are present (two folding), plus the folding table at the 
end, but no advertising leaf. The fourth volume contains 61 spectacular 
engravings of native people, places, and animals visited or seen by 
Capt. Cook in what is now Hawaii (described as the Sandwich Islands), 
Western British Columbia, Kamchatka and Alaska. Forty of the plates are 
folding; 21 are large single-page plates. Volume IV begins with "The 
List of Plates", and is numbered xci to xcvi (see above). Some of the 
illustrations are quite foxed, most less so. This volume lacks three 
charts (nos. I, VI and XXXVI). There is foxing (off-setting, really) on 
the pages facing the plates and charts, and occasional marginal foxing 
to the text, but the latter is hardly untoward. Overall, the contents 
remain tightly-bound and in remarkably good condition. This set priced 
with re-binding in mind, or we can arrange for it to be carried out 
according to your desires. Beddie, Bibliography of Captain James Cook 
1543, Streeter 3478. Sabin 16250, Howes 729a.

Price: $11,500 

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