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Octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage
Octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage
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Author: Cook, James & James King
Title: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of his Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Fielding
Date Published: 1785-6
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4 volumes. Volume 2 from a 1788 edition published by Scatcherd & Whitaker, et al. viii, (v)-xii, 370; xii, 359; xii, 400; xii, 310, [2 blank], [60] pp. Subscriber list at rear of Volume 4. 50 engraved plates, several folding including one map. (8vo) 21x12.5 cm (8¼x5"), period calf with old rebacking. Early octavo edition.



Popular edition of Cook's third and final voyage; abridged from the quarto edition of the official account of Cook's fateful third voyage, a search for the Northwest Passage, during which he was clubbed and stabbed to death by the once friendly natives of Hawaii.

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Bindings well worn; foxing and soiling within, a few pages chipped and plates with short tears; good.
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Octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage

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