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London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition thus. Hardcover. Recently expertly rebacked retaining all original materials, some toning to text and plates but a very good copy. 2 volumes, contemporary full tan calf by H. Faulkner; [20], cxc, 290; viii, 442, 119 pp, 51 engraved plates in the 2 volumes, including 3 folding maps in first volume. Printed label at upper corner of verso of front free enpaper: "Bound by H. Faulkner, George Court, Adelphi." The British Book Trade Directory finds a Henry Faulkner, Sr., succeded by Henry Faulkner, Jr. at a George Court, Adelphi, from 1790 to 1825. Originally published in French in 1797 this is one of three English-language translations published in 1798-99. This edition being the second of the three, preceded earlier in the year by the Johnson edition (which had only 41 plates). "The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated Pérouse, is full of interest in all portions, but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast…
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THE VOYAGE OF LA PEROUSE ROUND THE WORLD: In the Years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788. To Which is Prefixed , Narrative of an Interesting Voyage from Manila to St. Blaise, and annexed, Travels over the Continent with the Dispatches of La Perouse in 1787 and 1788, by M. de Lesseps. Translated from the French. Illustrated with Fifty-one Plates.
by [La Perouse]. Mureau, M. L. A. Milet, editor.
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A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World Performed in His Majesty’s Ship the Resolution and Adventure in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. In Two Volumes. / Illustrated with Maps and Charts, and a Variety of Portraits of Persons and Views of Places, drawn during the Voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent Masters.
by James Cook; Furneaux
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London: W. Strahan; T. Cadell, c. 1779. A very good set, text and plates are clean and crisp.. Edition: Third edition, Binding: Recent ½ morocco with cloth boards, spine in six compartments of raised gilt bands, with gilt nautical motifs in gilt borders, titles on two, four, and six, top edge gilt, endpapers renewed. , Notes: Shortly after his return from the first voyage Cook was once again commissioned by the Royal Society to search for the mythical Terra Australis. On his first voyage, Cook had demonstrated by circumnavigating New Zealand that it was not attached to a larger landmass to the south; and by charting almost the entire eastern coastline of Australia he had shown it to be continental in size. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated the globe at a very high southern latitude, becoming one of the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on January 17, 1773, reaching 71°10' south. He…
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