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Astronomical Observations, made in the Voyages which were undertaken [...], for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook [...]. Illustrated with maps of New Zealand and Eastern coast of New Holland, from the original drawings by Captain Cook
by Wales, William
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- 1788
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London: C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly, 1788. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE.
This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Portraits of Joseph Banks, Botanist, Explorer - collection of 9 engravings
by Banks, Joseph
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- 1840
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1840. Print. Very good condition. Joseph Banks [1743 - 1820] was an English naturalist, botanist and explorer who sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavor as a natural historian and was later president of the Royal Society for over 41 years.
Collection of 9 copper engravings, sizes range 3.5 x 5.25" to 7.25 x 10.75", printed from… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Death of Captain Cook. To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain & c. This Plate representing The Death of Captain Cook is humbly inscribed. By their Lordship's most obedient and devoted Servant, John Webber
by [Cook, James] John Webber; F. Bartolozzi ; W. Byrne
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- 1784
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London: W. Byrne, No. 79 Titchfield Street & J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford St., 1784. First printing. Print. Very good condition. The separately published image by Webber of one of the iconic images of the 18th century. Cook, already a successful navigator, was immortalized after his death at the hands of Hawaiian natives at Karakakoa Bay. Cook had… Read more about this item Item Price
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Death of Captain Cook [and] A Man of Kamtschatka Travelling in Winter
by [Cook, James]
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- 1790
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1790. Otherwise Good.. Early copper engravings of the Death of Cook and Kamtschatka.
Two engravings 6 1/4 x 4 1/4" on a sheet 9 1/2 x 7 1/2", toning and foxing in margins. Item Price
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Breadfruit Engraving from Cook's first voyage
by Cook, James
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- 1773
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London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Copper engraving , folded, printed on watermarked paper . Impression size 12 ins x 14 ins. The work of John Frederick Miller (fl.1759-1794), the artist was employed by Joseph Banks to make drawings of some of the specimens collected on Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in the Endeavour. This image appeared as plate… Read more about this item Item Price
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Russian Woman in her Winter Dress
by Atkinson, John Augustus. [Cook, James]
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- 1802
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Boydell, 1802. Large color aquatint of Russian woman and child. Set in a wintry landscape with a log cabin style cottage in the background, a woman and young boy are out for a stroll; the boy pulling a sled on a rope. The woman is handsomely dressed in pink fur lined floor length coat with matching hat and fur… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Unique, or Biography of Many Distinguished Characters; with Fine Portraits. Illustrated with Anecdotes
by Smeeton, George
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- Third edition, improved
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- 1830
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Boston: Charles H. Peabody, 1830. Third edition, improved. Hardcover. Good condition. Biographies of important figures, including Captain James Cook and Washington Irving, complete with the copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Dewitt Clinton, and 12 other engraved portraits. The Captain Cook biography notes the Royal Society's awarding of the Copley gold medal to Cook, and the June 8, 1779… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography. Volumes I & II
by Cooke, George Alexander
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- 1801
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London: Printed for C. Cooke by J. Adlard, 1801. Hardcover. Good -. Two large thick volumes, the first volume with Book 1, pertaining to Captain Cook's voyages and including the folding map of Cook's Pacific voyages, and engravings, including of kangaroo ("A singular Animal called Kanguroo found on the Coast of New Holland", p236) and the Portrait of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Captain Cook. Stipple engraved portrait with Death of Cook vignette
by Chapman, John, after Nathaniel Dance
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- 1800
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London: J. Wilkes, 1800. Very good condition. An engraved portrait of Captain Cook, turned slightly right, wearing a naval uniform and wig, after the original by Dance.
Featuring a rectangular vignette underneath the oval portrait, depicting Cook just before his death in Hawaii, his arm raised to stop his soldiers from firing at the crowd of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The World. Hand colored dissected map on linen
by Cruchley, George Frederick
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- First edition
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- 1833
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London: G. F. Cruchley, 1833. First edition. Map of the world on Mercator projection showing the exploratory tracks of Vancouver (two voyages), Captain Cook (three voyages), Ross, Flinders, La Perouse, Furneaux, Weddell, and Phipps.
In Australia, the Swan River is recorded, but not Perth.
On verso two folds have a printed paper label listing works… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hydrographical Chart of the World on Wright or Mercators Projection with Tracks of the Last Circumnavigators
by (Thomson, John)
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- 1814
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1814. An excellent example of John Thomson's 1814 map of the world on Mercator's projection. Published in the 1814 edition of Thomson's General Atlas, this map was drawn to illustrate the great voyages of discovery of the late 18th century, most specifically Cook, Perouse, and Vancouver. Exploratory routes zigzag through the oceans and seas of this map, showing important… Read more about this item Item Price
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Sketch of the Typa, and Macao. Map
by [China; Macao] James Cook
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London. Very good condition. Copper engraved map of Macao, China and the islands in its vicinity. From the English edition of "Cook's Voyages". Within the plate is a note - "NB. The Harbour of Macao is drawn by the Eye and the Soundings taken at low water." Full impression marks from the plate visible, with small margins, the… Read more about this item Item Price
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H.M. Bark Endeavour. Her Place in Australian History, With an Account of Her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of Her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770
by Parkin, Ray
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- Second series of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 13
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- 1997
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Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1997. Second series of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 13. Hardcover. Near fine. A re-creation of the voyage of discovery of Captain James Cook's ship 'Endeavour' to Australia, which was awarded the Douglas Stewart Prize for non fiction as well as the NSW Book of the Year. The most painstaking and comprehensive study… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chart of the Sandwich Isles : Sketch of Karakakooa Bay
by [Cook / Hogg / Anderson]
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- 1790
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London: Alexander Hogg at the Kings Arms, No. 16, Paternoster Row, 1790. Attractive map of the Hawaiian Islands with Cook's tracks charged, as well as an inset map of Karakakooa Bay marked, "Here Capt. Cook was killed". Copper engraving, 13 3/4 x 9" with small margins. T. Conder Sculpt. "Accurately Engraved for Anderson's Large Folio Edition of the Whole… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Northern Hemisphere / The Southern Hemisphere, with Cook's 2nd & 3rd Voyages tracked
by Kincaid, Alexander
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- 1799
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Edinburgh, 1799. Two attractive double hemisphere world maps showing the track of the Resolution, James Cook's ship during his 2nd voyage from 1772 to 1780. The Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. Likely from a Scottish edition of Cook's Voyages, the map illustrates the discoveries of Cook's 1st voyage, and the discoveries and tracks of… Read more about this item Item Price
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The World with the latest Discoveries. [Cook's voyage tracks]
by [Cook, James] Anderson
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- 1787
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London, 1787. Engraved for Anderson's History of Commerce, printed at the Logographic Press". The Western and Eastern Hemispheres on Mercator projection with Cook's three voyage tracks & Anson's voyage noted with dates. Australia is shown connected to Tasmania, before Bass Straits were mapped. Attractive copper engraving with a lined area surrounding the hemispheres with shading. A map with the… Read more about this item Item Price
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New and Accurate Plan of the River St. Lawrence, from the Falls of Montmorenci to Sillery, with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec, 1763
by Entick, J.
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- 1776
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London: Urbanus, Sylvanus, 1776. Very good overall. Plan of the siege of Quebec, published in Gentleman's Magazine, showing the St. Lawrence and British and French vessels.
During the Seven Years' War, James Cook served in North America as the master of the 'Pembroke' (1757), and in 1758 was part of the major amphibious attack that captured… Read more about this item Item Price
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Capt. Cook's discovery of Hawaii in "Galleria Universale di Tutti i Popoli del Mondo", the single fascicle
by [Cook, James; Hawaii]
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- 1842
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Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1842. Good + overall. A section from an Italian work on the people of the world, this section pertaining to Hawaii and Captain Cook's discovery of the "isole de Sandwich". The text describes the previously unknown islands of Hawaii and their inhabitants: "che queste isole non sieno state conosciute ad altro Europeo innanzi all arrivo… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Death of Captain James Cook by the Indians of O,why,ee, one of the Sandwich Islands
by [Cook, James] George Carter
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- 1784
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London: G. Carter, 1784. Proof. A notable rarity in a proof edition with scratched text below the image, after letters of the most beautiful depiction of the death of Captain James Cook.
The artist, George Carter, was not an eyewitness to the events in Hawaii, but his imagery and care in reconstructing the event places it as… Read more about this item Item Price
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'Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 7, 8, and 9': The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle 1781. Volume LI. For the Year MDCCLXXXI
by [Cook, James; John Rickman] Urban, Sylvanus
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- 1781
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London: J. Nichols for D. Henry, 1781. Hardcover. Very good condition. Contains an important article on the death of Captain James Cook in a review of the first full account in English of Cook's third voyage, published three years earlier than the official account. The book is attributed to Lieutenant John Rickman, who served as second lieutenant on… Read more about this item Item Price
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