Captain james king (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 1784, First Octavo Edition. Four volumes in full leather burnings, rebacked, with new headbands, gilt lettering to spines. General wear to exteriors, as shown, with marks and scuffs. Volume one rear joint slightly cracking at bottom of joint, volume three front joint cracked and board loosened. Later endpapers in all volumes. Half titles present. Pages are complete with a total of 52 plates, including one frontispiece, 2 folding charts, and 1 folding plate (death of captain cook), all as called for. Light age toning and a few little marks or spots here and there, otherwise pages are generally clean, as shown. Vol. I - viii, v-xii, 370pp, frontispiece, 1 folding chart, 17 plates, Vol. II - xii, 359pp, 12 plates, Vol. III - xii, 400pp, 17 plates (2 folding), Vol. IV - xii, 310pp, [62], 4 plates.…

The atlas of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861) with dark early impressions. Currer was an eminent book collector, with a reputation for books in fine condition. The great bibliographer T.F. Dibdin (1776-1847), described her as 'the head of all female collectors in Europe'. The second edition text is completely reset, and the title pages are embellished with the Royal Society Medal. It is considered be be typographically superior to, and printed on better paper than the first edition. 'The official publication of Captain Cook's Third Voyage, and arguably the single most important book on the Hawaiian Islands, this documents all aspects of Hawaiian culture at the point of discovery by Europeans. It is a magnificent summation of all the public and private journals, logs, drawings, and other observations made during the course of the voyage and is as an important a record of the exploration of the North Pacific as Cook's first two voyages had been for the South Pacific. It is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century' (Forbes). Cook's third and final voyage was an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage with a remarkable crew including William Bligh, George Vancouver, and James Burney. After calling at Tasmania and New Zealand Cook sailed north, discovering Christmas Island and the Sandwich Islands, later to be named the Hawaiian Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait before being stopped by pack ice at latitude 70° 44'. It was whilst wintering over at Hawaii that he was killed in a fracas with natives over a boat. Second edition; 4 vols: atlas folio (supplied) with 63 engraved plates & charts (2 large folding) & 3 vols 4to text with, 24 engraved plates & charts, some folding, folding letterpress table, some occasional light toning to plates, bookplates to pastedown and endpaper of atlas; (text) contemporary polished calf boards gilt ruled with gilt roll to turn-ins, spine gilt flat, joints restored, (atlas) half calf to style, marbled boards, a very good set. Provenance: Frances Mary Richardson Currer (bookplate); F.A. Barrett (bookplate); Carl Wendell Carlsmith (bookplate). Beddie 1552; Forbes 85; Hill 361; Holmes 47; cf. Lada-Mocarski 37; Sabin 16250.…

, in 3 volumes (To Determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America, its Distance from Asia and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe, Performed Under the Direction of Captains Cooke Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years 1776 1777 1778 1779 and 1780), 2 plates with titles (Vol I engraved frontispiece portrait, folding Table of Numerals), armorial bookplate to each volume New Edition , some wear to all volumes, bumping to corners, splits to joints and boards loosely held in places, chipping to spine edges, vertical split to spine of Vol III, very slight splitting to hinges, small section missing upper free endpaper Vol I, marking to endpapers, interiors in good condition, exteriors in fair condition , full calf, gilt decorative border to boards, gilt decoration and rules with titles on labels to spines, blindstamped decorative turn-ins, green edges, octavo, 22 x 13.5 cms Hardback ISBN.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. 3 volume set in uniform contemporary full calf, with gilt titles to spine labels - including Vol. III, IV & V to spines. This was previously paired with another separate work by Cook, with all 5 volumes bound in uniform bindings to create a larger set by a previous owner. 2nd edition 1785. 4to. Complete with 24 engraved plates, maps and charts. Volume 1: (x), xcvi, 421pp. 7 plates and charts. Volume 2: (xiv), 548pp. 11 plates and charts. Volume 3: (xiv), 556pp. 6 plates and charts. Bindings rubbed and cracked, heraldic bookplate of Benjamin Clay on front free end-papers in each volume. Lacking the Atlas volume printed to accompany these volumes. A rather splendid set. A heavy set, additional postage will be required for tracked orders outside the UK. (q34).…

Zustand: Very Good. Print for cook's third voyage. Print measures 38x23, plus margin. Lightly dust marked, small pinhole Print on good clean condition.

Zustand: Very Good. Print from Cook's third voyage. Print measures 38,5x22.5.cm, plus margin. Some light dust marking, mainly to margin. Print in good clean condition.

Zustand: Very Good. Print from Cook's third voyage. Measures 39x22.cm, plus margin. Light stain mark on margin, light dust marking. Print in good clean condition.

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. For his last Voyage, Cook was ordered to seek a North-West Passage and to return Omai to Tahiti. From Cape Horn they sailed to the Kerguelens (named Desolation Island by Cook), Tasmania, and New Zealand, charting and mapping all the way, then north, discovering the Hawaiian Islands (which Cook considered his most valuable discovery) and Christmas Island. Cook charted the American West Coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait to 70 deg. 44â N. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an "unhappy skirmish" with the natives over a boat. Also on board were James Burney, William Bligh, James Colnett, and George Vancouver, who all made their own great contributions to navigation and discovery. The present work resulting from their voyage is âarguably the single most important book on the hawaiian islands, that documents all aspects of Hawaiian culture at the point of discovery by Europeans⦠and is in fact one of the most important English books published in the last quarter of the eighteenth centuryâ (Forbes). âCook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to Western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia, and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent, as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of Antarctic land in the southern ice ring, a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth centuryâ (PMM).…