Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
COOK, JAMES; and FURNEAUX, [-]. 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. 64 engraved plates and maps; letterpress folding table. xl, 378; [8], 396 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 295x228 mm, modern brown leather gilt, slightly scuffed; varying toning on plates, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, short marginal clean tear in Chart of the Southern Hemisphere, small hole through pagination on 2C2, and clean tear in blank outer margin of 2P3 in Volume 1, title and last several leaves foxed in Volume 2. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777

Additional Details

Second edition, published the same year as the first, of the official account of Cook's second voyage. Beddie 1217.