COOK JAMES; and KING JAMES A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; fo

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COOK, JAMES; and KING, JAMES. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere; Performed . . . in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. Engraved portrait of Cook and 48 engraved plates; one folding map (of 2); lacks the folding chart of the voyage. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, moderate wear, Volume 1 front cover loose, Volume 2 and 4 lack lettering piece; occasional browning and marginal stains on text leaves, plates clean, small pencil sketch on rear flyleaf of Volume 2, Volume 4 lacks final leaf of binder's directions; contemporary owner's small inked stamp on title pages, small bookseller's tag on first rear pastedown. With half-titles. London, 1784-86

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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. Mixed set in uniform binding of this abridged account, with 1784 Stockdale imprint in Volumes 1-3 and 1786 Fielding imprint in Volume 4. "This abridged account is preferred by some readers because, the nautical and technical parts having been deleted, the work reads more like an adventure"--Hill 362 (on 1784 edition). Beddie 1550-51; Forbes 69-70.