Lot 368
COOK (James)
A voyage to the South Pole and round the world
Auction: 24 November 2001 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Performed in His Majesty's ship the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775, written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his proceedings in the adventure during the separation of the ships....1st edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 with engraved port. frontis. of Captain Cook, a large fldg. chart of the Southern Hemisphere and 35 engraved plates of charts, portraits, events, a number of which are either double or fldg.; volume 2 with 27 similar plates and fldg. language table, contemporary light tan calf, covers with gilt ruled and blind tooled border, spine decorated gilt in compartments, dark green leather lettering pieces, occasional offsetting from the plates, small tear in the lower margin of p 299 (no loss), otherwise a suberb copy with margins, 4to, London, 1777
Footnote
Cook's ship was the first to cross the Atlantic circle. Cook circumnavigated the pole, penetrating further than anyone else was able to accomplish in the next fifty years. The ship also carried Harrison's K-1, a clock that enabled the calculation of the ship's longitude aa part of Harrison's efforts to establish an accurate method of determining longitude at sea. The voyage was also remarkable that of 112 man crew, none diedfrom scurvy as a result of Cook's great concern for the health of his sailors.