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  Rare Edition of Cook's Third Voyage; Finely Bound by Bayntun

  COOK, Captain James; Captain James King.

  A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, By The Command of His Majesty For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. [Cook’s Third Voyage].

  London: Printed by H. Hughs, for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1785.

  Finely bound example of Cook's Third Voyage, "one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century... considered typographically superior to the first edition" (Forbes). Quarto, three volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, nautical gilt stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, engraved medallion vignette to each title page, illustrated with engraved maps and charts (mostly folding), folding letterpress table, without 63 of the plates that the publisher instructed booksellers to issue separately in a folio volume (not present). Beddie, Mitchell Library 650, 1216, 1543; Forbes 62; Hill 782, 358, 361; Holmes 5, 24, 47; PMM 223; Rosove 77.A2; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250. Second edition. In near fine condition. An attractive example of this important work, which significantly advanced European understanding of the geography and peoples of the Pacific.

  Price: $6,500.00     Item Number: 151486

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