Cook, James and James King
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
£404
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
London: for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784. First octavo edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, xii 370, xii 358, xii 400, xii 310 [62] pp., contemporary calf, joints cracked, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding charts, 48 plates including the Death of Cook plate (folding), half-title to volumes 2-4, volume 3 lacking at least the final leaf of text, variable spotting throughout, folding charts and plate with repairs (4)