A voyage to the Pacific ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere
by COOK, James
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- Hardcover
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1785 James Cook Pacific Voyage Illustrated Eskimos Hawaii TAHITI Human Sacrifice
"Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it."
– James Cook
James Cook was an 18th-century British explorer known for these three major world voyages. The third Pacific voyage, which began in 1776, took Cook and his crew around New Zealand and Hawaii. On this trip, Cook became well acquainted with the King of Hawaii, Kalani-opu'u. After spending time in the South Pacific, Cook also took his ship northward to the Aleutian Islands reaching to the Arctic Circle. Cook eventually died upon his return to Hawaii, after angering the King of Hawaii.
The events of this voyage became quite popular in the western world, much in part to the narrative that Cook himself wrote concerning the journey.
This 1785 edition of the third voyage was stunningly bound with all four volumes bound in two impressive tomes. In it, authors describe Cook's experiences in the Arctic Circle and the Pacific Ocean and his voyage around the Cape of Good Hope – includes views of sled dogs, a polar bear, and native Eskimos, local tribes from Pacific islands, and even the highly controversial "Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite" engraving!
Item number: #23377
Price: $2500
COOK, James
A voyage to the Pacific ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere
London: Printed for John Fielding, 1785.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 4 volumes in 2 tomes
o Tome 1
Vol. I – viii, [1], vi-xii, 370, [2]
· 18 leaves of plates (including portrait frontispiece)
Vol. II – [v]-xii, 359, [1]
· 11 leaves of plates
o Tome 2
§ Vol. III – xii, 400
· 17 leaves of plates
Vol. IV – [v]-xii, 310, [64]
· 4 leaves of plates
· References: Sabin 16251; Howes C 729a; Evans 30274; Hill 362
· Provenance: Handwritten – Wm. Pott
· Language: English
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)
· exceedingly rare, valuable, and desirable with auction records and price comparisons as high as $4000-$25,000
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- Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23377
- Title
- A voyage to the Pacific ocean : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere
- Author
- COOK, James
- Format/Binding
- Leather; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- for John Fielding
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1785
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1785 James Cook Pacific Voyage Illustrated Eskimos Hawaii TAHITI Human Sacrifice, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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