The Story of Captain Cook's Second Voyage of Discovery. Pp. xvi+190(last blank), 8 coloured plates, 14 full page black & white maps, references, notes, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004. First edition. *'On 13 July 1772, a year and a day after..... More
Navigator and Scientist. Papers presented at the Cook Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Academy of Sciences, Canberra, 1 May, 1969. Edited by G. M. Badger. Pp. x+144(last colophon), hand-tipped coloured frontispiece portrait, text figures (some full page, 4 coloured), endpaper map printed in red & black, references; med. 8vo; gilt lettered grey..... More
, Circumnavigator. Pp. xvi+894, bibliography, errata, addenda, index; med. 8vo; boards lightly flecked, the bottom fore-corner of upper board bumped; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, corners of a few leaves faintly creased, a little light..... More
The Journals of Lieutenants Elliott and Pickersgill. Edited and Introduced by Christine Holmes. Pp. xxxii+98(last blank) 24 plates, 3 full page maps; brown cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, head of spine and edges of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, faintly soiled and scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed..... More
Pp. 192, coloured frontispiece and 18 plates (4 double page), numerous black & white text illustrations (some double page), text and endpaper maps, index; dust wrapper; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1972. First U.S. edition. More
In three volumes. With a descriptive Catalogue of all the known original surveys and coastal views and the original engravings associated with them, together with original drawings of the Endeavour and her boats [and] the running journal of James King, 1779-80. Chief Editor, Andrew David; Assistant Editors for the views..... More
OF JOHANN REINHOLD FORSTER, 1772-1775. Edited by Michael E. Hoare. In four volumes, totalling over 850 pages, with coloured frontispiece), plus 36 black & white plates (3 folding), text maps & figures (some full page, one multi-folding), appendices, select bibliographical references, indices; demy 8vo; matching blue cloth, lettered & decorated..... More