Lot 1134 , Cook, James; King, James - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To Determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North Americ

° Cook, James; King, James - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. 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 Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery. In the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780... 8vo. In 3 volumes with portrait frontis. and 26 (plus one duplicate) folded maps and plates bound in, with folded appendix of language. contemporary speckled calf boards with gilt tooled borders expertly rebacked to style with gilt tooled bands and gilt lettered labels (vols. I and III with original labels), Dublin: H. Chamberlaine, W. Watson, Potts [et al] 1784. contemporary book plate of John Walker Heneage to front paste downs.
£300-400

Condition:
two tears to first large folded chart with no loss, one other folded plate with tear (no loss), spotting to portrait, some sl. browning/fraying to outer edges of a few plates where they extend beyond the fore edge, very occasional spotting, generally clean. one duplicate plate (Christmas Island), plate II misnumbered IV and bound at p.83 (not p51). git lettering to spine of

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