Cook, James; King, James

A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN [...] [Four Volumes in Two]

London: Printed for John Stockdale...et. al. 1784. First Edition. Octavo, four volumes bound in two books. In Good minus condition. Bound in full tree calf. Brown spines have red and black labels with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Spines have moderate cracking and chipping, mild red rot, a loss of leather to spine head/tails resulting in exposed endbands (all endbands present), and missing the black volume number labels. Gilt ruled boards and gilt ornamentation to edges. Boards have cracking to joints, moderate rubbing wear, minor soiling, minor worming, chipping to edges, and bumping to fore corners resulting in exposed boards. Volume 1 front board is almost fully detached from the spine. Textblock has marbled end papers and the bookplate of Plowden Weston (1821-1864), the 50th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, on the front pastedowns. Textblock has age toning, light plus foxing and soiling to some pages throughout, creasing to corners of some pages, and bumping to edges. Volume 1 has pencil marks on some pages from page v to 48, and minor yellow discoloration to some fore edges of pages from the front free end page to page 66. Volume 2 (bound in book 1) is missing the top corner of page 96, and has moderate foxing to pages 62-82. Volume 3 (bound in book 2) has very small tears to the top edges of pages 211-214. Lacking plates and maps. CGT Consignment. Shelved in Room A.

CONTENTS: Book I: Contains volumes 1 and 2; VOL. I (xii, 370 pages, plus an illustrated frontispiece);-- VOL II (xii, 359 pages). Book II: Contains volumes 3 and 4; VOL III: (xii, 400 pages);-- VOL. IV: (xii, 310, [60] pages).

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Special Collections - Upstairs

Price: $2,000

NOTES

"A Voyage To The Pacific Ocean..." is an official account of Cook's third and last voyage. While searching for the Northwest Passage across America, he traveled to Hawaii and mapped the shore of the Pacific Northwest. "A Voyage To The Pacific Ocean" remains a valuable piece of travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, Canada and Alaska.