£300 - £400
Cook (Captain James) & Furneaux (Captain Tobias), A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, two volume set, first edition, London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777, with the full compliment of full-page and folding engraved plates, maps and charts, including the frontispiece of Captain Cook, volume II with folding table, volume I's plates I, Chart of the Southern Hemisphere, and XVI repaired, the former with an additional close tear, contemporary calf over boards, worn, volume I cover off, others split and just holding at present, 4to, (2)
Provenance: Thomas Challis (1794-1874), Lord Mayor of London (1852) & Liberal MP for Finsbury (1852-57); armorial bookplate to volume II pastedown only.
Cook's second voyage in search of Terra Australis, the supposed southern continent, in which he crossed the Antarctic Circle and discovered Easter Island, Norfolk Island, Tahiti, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and South Georgia.
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24% inc VAT*
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25.5% inc VAT*
