Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. (With Plates and Charts from the Atlas Bound In).
Cook, James, and James King.
H. Hughs, ( 1785), London
Three vol. 4to. (10), xcvi, 421; (12), 548; (10), 556 pp. b/w folding charts and plates.
Price: $5000
This is the second edition of Cooks final voyage. As we know, Cook died before the voyage could be completed, and James King took over, completing the third volume of the three volume official report. This third voyage was issued with a folio atlas containing two maps and sixty-one plates. However, in some sets the contents of the folio atlas were folded and bound into the text volumes. This is such a set. It contains the twenty-four maps and plates called for in the “list of plates” as well as the two maps and sixty-one plates that should be in the atlas. I just sold an atlas volume for $7500, so this set, with text and extra plates, is good value. See Beddie 1552. Bound in full mottled calf showing some scuffing and wear, covers detached but with spine labels and gilt decorations intact. Some offsetting and foxing, but a good set overall. With atlas maps and plates.