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The Three Voyages

Lot 65
27.06.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 65 | The Three Voyages
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COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779). A set of the three voyages, London 1773-1784.

Captain Cook’s Southern Hemisphere, South Pole, and Pacific Ocean voyages. Observing the transit of Venus while potentially locating “the southern continent,” circumnavigating the globe as far south as possible, and seeking out the Northwest Passage were the missions Captain James Cook endeavored to fulfil on his three famed journeys to the Pacific. Charting approximately 5,000 miles of coastline during his first voyage, including his unprecedented exploration of the newly-named Society Island, Cook won acclaim for his work and the opportunities to venture twice more to the opposite side of the globe. Combined with his later two voyages, “Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors together had done” (Hill 358). His third voyage, however, would prove to be his last. Cook was killed at Kealakekua Bay after he attempted to kidnap the Hawaiian king, Kalaniʻōpuʻu. BCJC 648, 1217, 1785; Hill 358, 361; PMM 223.

Comprising:

[FIRST VOYAGE] – HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773). An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour. London: W. Strahan and Cadell, 1773. First edition. Early issue, without directions for placing the cuts or Chart of Straight of Magellan. Three volumes, quarto (269 x 210mm). Complete with 51 engraved charts and plates (a couple tears touching images, occasional spotting or browning).

[SECOND VOYAGE] – COOK, Captain James (1728-1779). A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777. The second edition. Two volumes, quarto (269 x 210mm). With engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook, folding table, and 63 engraved charts and plates (Cook portrait with repairs to upper corner, not affecting image; a few minor tears and small losses at folds; one plate trimmed to plate mark).

[THIRD VOYAGE] – COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) and James KING (1750-1784). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London: H. Hughs for G.Nicol and T.Cadell, 1785. The third edition. Three volumes, quarto (272 x 208mm). Table and 24 plates (lacking atlas volume; occasional small losses, one plate trimmed, one plate with light dampstain).

Together eight volumes, quarto and folio. 19th-century half morocco gilt (scuffed). [Together with:] SKELTON, R.A., ed. The Journals of Captain James Cook on his Voyages of Discovery. Charts & Views. Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1969. Folio with loose plates. Charts & Views volume only. Provenance: tick marks to list of plates – Christie's New York, 3 December 2010, lot 394.
Artist:James Cook (1728 - 1779)
Place of origin:England
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