Discovery Of Tasmania

ELLIS, William. Cook's third voyage - an account by the assistant surgeon of the expedition An authentic narrative of a voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in his majesty's ships Resolution and Discovery, during the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780; in search of a North-West passage between the continents of Asia and America. Including a faithful account of all their discoveries, and the unfortunate death of Captain Cook. Second edition. London, G. Robinson, J. Sewell and J. Debrett, 1783.
Second edition of William Ellis's voyage as assistant surgeon on Captain Cook (1728-1779) and Captain Clerke's third voyage. On this third voyage the main goals were to investigate the coasts of the North Pacific. The ship Resolution sailed from Plymouth in July 1776, followed by the Discovery in August 1776 and met again at the Cape of Good Hope. From there they left together on the 30th November of the same year, sailing past the Prince Edward Islands to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). From Tasmania they sailed towards New Zealand and continued to travel northwards, discovering the Raratonga and the Cook Islands. They landed at Tahiti, where the whole crew rested for four months in preparation for the voyage north. After sailing past Christmas Island for the first time, Cook and Clerke landed on the outer western islands of the Hawaiian Group and named them the Sandwich Islands. They left the islands and headed towards North America, Vancouver before returning to Hawaii. Cook and his men sailed along the coasts of Maui and Hawaii. On the island Hawaii the relationship with the natives deteriorated, resulting in the death of Captain Cook. This happened after they had gone ashore to seek out the natives who had stolen one of the longboats belonging to the Discovery. Cook received a blow from behind and was overpowered. From that moment on Captain Clerke was in command and the ships moved on to Petropavlovsk (in Kamschatka) and stayed there until the ships were fully restocked by the Russian commander. Just after they left Petropavlovsk, Captain Clerke died of tuberculosis and two new captains were put in command, Captain King on the Discovery and Captain Gore on the Resolution. They sailed back to Petropavlosk and buried Clerke before the long voyage home. The first edition of Ellis's work was published two years before the official narrative. Clerke commended Ellis in his last letter written on his death bed to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), a naturalist and patron of science who also joined Cook on his third voyage, but Ellis disappointed Banks by publishing his account of the voyage in contravention of Admiralty instructions to surrender all journals and logs. It appears that, needing money, Ellis sold his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. Banks wrote to him, regretting his imprudence. Ellis's first edition account (1782) of Cook's death preceded Samwell's Narrative by four years (1786). The fine plates illustrating the first and second edition are among the earliest published on the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and the Northwest.The text of the second edition is closely reset from the first edition, with no noticeable textual alterations. There are several misprints in pagination in volume 1 and none in volume 2. All the engraved plates are the same as in the first edition.
Good set.- (Rebacked; first quire in first vol. loosening; contents of vol. 2 misbound).
Sabin 22333; Hill p. 95 & 265; Beddie 1600; Howego,<I> Encycl. of exploration to 1800</I>, C133 & C175; Forbes, <I>Hawaiian Nat. Bibliogr. </I>41 & 49; Lada-Mocarski 39; Judd, <I>Voyages to Hawaii 59</I>; Kroepelien 400; O'Reilly & Reitman 428.

2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf. With one folding engraved chart showing the tracks and discoveries in the Pacific Ocean made by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke and 21 full-page engraved plates showing natives from the Sandwich Islands, views of islands, natives in canoes, a Kamtschatka travelling in the winter and many more. (12), 358, (1); (4), 347, (4) pp.

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COOK, Capt. James (1728-1779) and Captain James KING (1750-1784). A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776-1779 and 1780,

London: H. Hughes, for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 4 volumes. (Text: 3 vols., quarto [11 1/4 x 9 inches]; Atlas vol. of plates: 1 vol., large folio [21 ½ x 16 ¾ inches]).Text: Engraved medallion portrait vignettes by James Hogg on titles, 1 folding letterpress table. Atlas vol.: 87 engraved plates, plans and maps (one double-page, one folding), the 24 plates normally found bound in the text vol. here bound in the atlas unfolded and untrimmed. (Text: small nick to top edge of folding letterpress table not affecting text, two contents leaves misbound at end of second vol.). Text: contemporary tree calf, red morocco spine labels (neat repairs to head and foot of spines). Atlas: contemporary half calf and marbled-paper boards, red morocco spine labels (head and tail caps chipped, covers scuffed). A fine unsophisticated set of the third edition of the third voyage, with the plates in their most desireable form: all the plates usually found in the text volumes are here bound, unfolded and uncut, in the atlas volume. "The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" (Hill). "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" (Hill). Copies of the Third Voyage with the plates from the text uncut, unfolded and bound into the atlas are rare. Such sets are more desireable, as the plates may be enjoyed more fully without the usual folds and losses from irregular trimming by the binder. Beddie 1543; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85; Hill (2004) 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Sabin 16250.

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COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) and Captain James KING (1750-1784): A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780.

London: H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 4 volumes. (Text: 3 vols., quarto [12 x 9 1/8 inches]; Atlas: 1 vol., large folio [30 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches]). Text: With final blank 3H4 in vol.I and an unrecorded blank bound between Nn3 and Nn4 in vol.II. Engraved medallion portrait vignettes on titles, 1 folding letterpress table, 24 engraved maps, coastal profiles and charts (14 folding, 2 misbound: plate XXIV misbound in vol.I facing page 170 and plate XLIV misbound in vol.II facing page 269). (One short tear in outer blank margin of Pp1 in vol.III, some spotting). Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates, plans and maps. Text: contemporary tree calf, covers with outer decorative borders with large flower spray corner-pieces, expertly rebacked to style, the flat spines divided into six compartments by various roll tools, red morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, dark blue/green morocco lettering-piece in the fourth, the others with repeat decoration of a central flower-spray with scolling foliage at the cornerpieces; atlas: bound to style in half calf over contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, flat spines elaborately tooled in gilt uniform to the text. A fine copy of the second (and best) edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage: a cornerstone among travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, Canada and Alaska. "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" (Hill). The typography of the second edition text of the third voyage is generally considered superior to the first (Hughs took over the printing from Strahan and re-set all the text). Contemporary support for this view is reported by Forbes who quotes an inscription in a set presented by Mrs. Cook to her doctor, Dr. Elliotson, which notes that "the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press." Beddie 1552; Forbes 85; Hill (2004) 361 (first edition); cf. Lada-Mocarski 37; cf. Sabin 16250.

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COOK, Captain James (1728-1779) and Captain James KING (1750-1784): A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.

London: W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. 4 volumes. (Text: 3 vols., quarto [11 3/16 x 9 inches]; Atlas: 1 vol., large folio [23 1/2 x 17 inches]). Text: 1p. publisher's advertisements at end of vol.III. 1 folding letterpress table, 24 engraved maps, coastal profiles and charts (14 folding), extra-illustrated with a duplicate folding engraved "Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia" which is also present in the atlas. Atlas vol.: 63 engraved plates, plans and maps (one double-page, one folding), uncut. Text: contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, the flat spines divided into six compartments by double fillets enclosing a neo-classical roll, red/brown morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, green morocco label with onlaid disc of red/brown morocco with volume number, the remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with stylised foliage cornerpieces around various large centrally-place tools; Atlas: expertly bound to style in half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, the flat spine elaborately tooled in gilt uniform to the text. A fine set of the first edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage: a cornerstone among travel and voyage literature on the exploration of Hawaii and the northwest coast of America, Canada and Alaska. This copy particularly desirable with the plates in the atlas uncut. "The famous accounts of Captain Cook's three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was really the first scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge" (Hill). "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives over a boat. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" (Hill). Beddie 1543; Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography, 85; Hill (2004) 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; cf.Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Sabin 16250.

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