Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
COOK, JAMES, Captain; and James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; 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. Folding map of Hawaii torn and repaired with tape, fragment of folding world map, folding plate of death of Cook, 44 other plates. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacks half-title, browning and minor marginal tears, pages 4:131-134 and accompanying plate detached; bookplates on front pastedowns. Includes a small fragment of the world map that was bound into only a few copies, at 1:xxxiii. Also includes one plate not listed in contents: "The Inside of a Hippah, in New-Zealand" (facing page 1:65), but lacking the final listed plate of Kamchatka (facing 4:160). New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, for Benjamin Gomez, 1796

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first complete american edition. This account of Cook's fatal third voyage includes pioneering visits to what are now Alaska, British Columbia, and Hawaii, where he was killed on the beach. Most standard printed sources do not list this exact title and imprint, although 16 copies are listed in the corresponding ESTC entry (see Evans 30274, Howes C729a, Sabin 16251).