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[VOYAGES / COOK (James)]. Third voyage of Cook, or Voyage to - Lot 174
[VOYAGES / COOK (James)]. Third voyage of Cook, or Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, ordered by the King of England
of England, to make Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, to determine the position & extent of the West Coast of
of North America, its distance from Asia, and to solve the question of the passage to the North. Executed under
the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke & Gore, on the ships the Resolution & the Discovery, in 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. In Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785. 4 volumes in-4°, triple gilded fillet framing the plates
plates, coat of arms in the center, spine with ornamented nerves (binding of the time).
81 plates, some folded (59 + 22 ) including 22 maps, plans and views, one of them representing the death of
Cook's death in Haway in 1779.
Spellings; second spine of vol. IV damaged.
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