Lot 9 , Cook, Capt. James and King, Capt. James - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... (i.e. Cook's Third Voyage).

° Cook, Capt. James and King, Capt. James - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... (i.e. Cook's Third Voyage). First Edition, 3 vols. with 24 plates (incl. maps, charts etc.) and a folded table; contemp. tree calf, gilt-extra decorated spines and marbled e/ps., roy. 4to. printed by W. and A. Strahan: for G. Nicol ... and T. Cadell ... 1784
£600-800

Condition:
Some leather wear on all vols, vol.I joints cracked and bds loose, vol.2 joints cracked, vol.3 upper bd. present, but detached; all labels missing / damaged; intermittent spotting etc. (mostly light), but plt/ offsetting (marked in places), front and end blanks browned at edges, vol.3 3pp. 509/10 with mostly clean tear (3 word loss). Plates confirm to those required in text vols. (Atlas not present) vol.3 by King. (8), XCVI,421; (12), 549; (II), 558pp and advert leaf; early ownership (?C.H.Harris) on titles: see Mitchell Lib.Cat.1543

Sold for £850