Product Description
Capt Cook's First Voyage.
London: Printed for W.
Strahan; & T.
Cadell in the Strand.
M DCC LXXIII (1773).
3 volumes, 4to.
First Edition.
Fifty-two plates and charts, all complete.
Contemporary full speckled calf, expertly re-backed; some very occasional spotting and offsetting from plates, but a very good, very clean set in handsome bindings, with an illustrious provenance.
Volume I, pp.
[xii], xxxvi, 140pp (last blank), [361]-676pp [pages jump from p139-p360, as normal] [iv]; 21 charts & plates (mostly folding); Volume II, pp.
xvi, 410; 22 charts & plates (mostly folding); Volume III, pp.
[vi], 411-800 (last blank); 9 charts & plates (mostly folding); First editions; Without the added-to-later editions chart the Streights of Magellan, and with the Directions for Placing the Cuts.
Published in 1773, this first edition of the three-volume work is the first official, authorized narrative of Captain James Cook's legendary first voyage, alongside the earlier Pacific expeditions of Byron, Wallis, and Carteret.
Volume I contains the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis, with the discovery of Tahiti.
Volumes II-III contain Hawkesworth's edited account of Lieutenant Cook's voyage (who was only promoted to Captain on his return).
Cook's instructions were to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti, and to carry on John Byron's survey and examination of the seas between Cape Horn and New Holland/ However, they did not continue searching for Terra Australis.
Cook added more than 5,000 miles of coastline to Admiralty charts for Tahiti, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, and New Zealand, which he circumnavigated.
PROVENANCE: Brigadier-General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay of Lockinge, 1st Baron Wantage (1832-1901).
British soldier, politician, and benefactor.
Awarded the Victoria Cross in 1854 for his actions at the Battle of Alma in the Crimean War.
Both volumes have his Astra Castra Numen Lumen circular armorial bookplate.
From his Overstone Park estate library with its bookplate as well.
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