A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (Easton Press Limited Deluxe Edition)
A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (Easton Press Limited Deluxe Edition)
COOK, Captain James (ed. George William Anderson). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. 2 vols.
Folio (approximately 390 × 260mm). Full brown leather, covers and spines profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green. Spines with six raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Satin ribbon page markers. Illustrated throughout. Facsimile of the original London edition of 1784. Deluxe limited edition. Limited to 800 numbered sets, this being number 241.
James Cook made three voyages of Pacific exploration between 1768 and 1780, and between them they transformed European knowledge of the world more thoroughly than any comparable programme of navigation since Magellan. The first voyage (1768–71) carried Cook and the naturalist Joseph Banks aboard HMS Endeavour around Cape Horn and to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus, then southward and westward to chart the coastline of New Zealand and the entire eastern seaboard of Australia — claiming that coastline for the Crown at Botany Bay in April 1770, and naming the harbour of Port Jackson three days later. The second voyage (1772–75) drove HMS Resolution below the Antarctic Circle on three separate occasions, disproving the existence of a great temperate southern continent and establishing the approximate boundary of the Antarctic ice. The third voyage (1776–80) sought the Northwest Passage from the Pacific, reached Hawaii — unknown to Europeans before 1778 — and ended with Cook's death on a beach at Kealakekua Bay in February 1779.
The compilation edited by George William Anderson and published by Alexander Hogg in London in 1784 was among the first works to bring together accounts of all three voyages in a single publication, making the full scope of Cook's achievement accessible to a general readership for the first time. It remains a significant source document in the history of Pacific exploration and, for Australian readers, an account of first contact with the continent that carries particular weight: the naming of Botany Bay, the charting of the eastern coast, and the observations of Banks and Cook on the country and its peoples are here set down in the words of the participants.
The Easton Press facsimile of 2015, produced in a strictly limited edition of 800 numbered sets and now out of print, reproduces the original 1784 Hogg edition at full folio scale. The binding — full brown leather with covers and spine profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green, with six raised bands and all edges gilt — gives the set a physical presence commensurate with its subject.
Near fine. A small number of imperfections to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout, inside and out.
Please note: This item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. For international shipping please contact us for a quote.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000470
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COOK, Captain James (ed. George William Anderson). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. 2 vols.
Folio (approximately 390 × 260mm). Full brown leather, covers and spines profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green. Spines with six raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Satin ribbon page markers. Illustrated throughout. Facsimile of the original London edition of 1784. Deluxe limited edition. Limited to 800 numbered sets, this being number 241.
James Cook made three voyages of Pacific exploration between 1768 and 1780, and between them they transformed European knowledge of the world more thoroughly than any comparable programme of navigation since Magellan. The first voyage (1768–71) carried Cook and the naturalist Joseph Banks aboard HMS Endeavour around Cape Horn and to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus, then southward and westward to chart the coastline of New Zealand and the entire eastern seaboard of Australia — claiming that coastline for the Crown at Botany Bay in April 1770, and naming the harbour of Port Jackson three days later. The second voyage (1772–75) drove HMS Resolution below the Antarctic Circle on three separate occasions, disproving the existence of a great temperate southern continent and establishing the approximate boundary of the Antarctic ice. The third voyage (1776–80) sought the Northwest Passage from the Pacific, reached Hawaii — unknown to Europeans before 1778 — and ended with Cook's death on a beach at Kealakekua Bay in February 1779.
The compilation edited by George William Anderson and published by Alexander Hogg in London in 1784 was among the first works to bring together accounts of all three voyages in a single publication, making the full scope of Cook's achievement accessible to a general readership for the first time. It remains a significant source document in the history of Pacific exploration and, for Australian readers, an account of first contact with the continent that carries particular weight: the naming of Botany Bay, the charting of the eastern coast, and the observations of Banks and Cook on the country and its peoples are here set down in the words of the participants.
The Easton Press facsimile of 2015, produced in a strictly limited edition of 800 numbered sets and now out of print, reproduces the original 1784 Hogg edition at full folio scale. The binding — full brown leather with covers and spine profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green, with six raised bands and all edges gilt — gives the set a physical presence commensurate with its subject.
Near fine. A small number of imperfections to cover gilt; otherwise fine throughout, inside and out.
Please note: This item is very large and heavy. Within Australia it may require additional postage costs. For international shipping please contact us for a quote.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000470
