Captain Cook Voyages Round The World by Captain James Cook - 1790

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. Hardcover. Rebound in brown cloth boards with original spine cloth laid down. Spine cloth rubbed and faded. No signatures. Later endpapers. Split to gutter between half-title page and engraved title page. Some foxing. ; xvi, 368 pages + extra engraved title + (4)-6 pages advertisements. Rebacked with original spine cloth laid down. "The Cottage Library" on spine in plain lettering, above "Cook''s Voyages Round the World" in gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 124 x 78mm. [References: c.f. Beddie 161 (1857 edition)].; 32mo .

London: Jaques and Wright. Good with no dust jacket. 1825. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; Both Vols: Brown leather half-binding, very worn; marbled boards, very worn -- all boards detached, but present. Vol I backstrip missing; Vol II backstrip worn. Textblocks in both vols intact. Frontis in Vol I plus all plates in both vols present. ; 8vo (5" x 9"); 488 + 457 pages .

London, Longman, Hurst Rees Orme and Brown, 1821.. Octavo; Vol. I. xii, 398; frontispiece, folding map, 4 b/w. plates, Vol. II. viii, 368; 2 plates, Vol. III. viii, 372; frontispiece, 3 plates, Vol. IV. pp. viii, 304; frontispiece, fold-out table at rear, Vol. V. pp. viii, 472; 2 plates, Vol. VI. pp. xii, 503; 6 plates, Vol. VII. pp. xii, 462; frontispiece, 2 plates, foldout table at rear, one page directions for placing the plates, contemporary half calf and marbled boards, raised bands, red moroccan spine title labels with green leather volume labels, title lettered in gilt, the first volume neatly repaired at the head of spine, some minor foxing to early pages, a very good attractive set. In 1768 when captain James Cook set sail on the first of three voyages to the South Seas, he carried with him secret orders from British Admiralty to seek 'a Continent or land of great extent' and to take possession of that country in the name of the King of Great Britain. The first voyage aboard the… Read More

London: printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King’s Arms, no. 16, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by all booksellers and news-carriers, [1784-1786]., [1784-1786].. Very good. - Folio, 15-3/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Bound in full dark red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with rough gilt edges, a three line panel in blind and gold, with gold corner ornaments and blind trefoils. Titled "Cook's Voyages" in gilt on the front cover and between raised bands on the spine. In the center of the front cover is a sailing vessel of the period in full sail, tooled in gold outline, surrounded with a gold tooled circle representing rope. There is a small tear to the head of the spine and the joints and bottom edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. Pages iv, 5-655 + v, with a frontispiece portrait of Cook with a tissue guard, engraved, as follows, at the foot of the plate: "Accurately drawn from an original painting & engraved by Mr. Thornton". Illustrated with 156 plates and… Read More