Cook’s Voyages of Discovery

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415 pp., hardbound, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, with plates and one folding note. RARE.

Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was a British explorer, cartographer, and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 to the Pacific and Southern Oceans. He completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand and was the first known European to visit the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.
The author, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS, FSA (1764–1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known for serving as the Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845.