A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere...; Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore... in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780

London: Strahan, 1784. First. hardcover. good. 4 volumes -- 3 quartos, and 1 atlas folio. [8], xcvi, 421; [11], 549; [12], 558, [1]; 59 pages. Illustrated altogether with 85 plates and maps of which 24 are in the text and 59 in the atlas. Original leather bindings, beautifully rebacked in brown calf with black leather spine labels. London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784. A very good copy. The atlas volume has some foxing and dampstains in the upper margin, the interior is generally clean. First edition of the official account of Cook's last voyage. "This third (truncated) voyage differed from the other two in that the scene of discovery shifted from the South Seas to the North Pacific and the west coast of North America, and had as one of the objectives the attempt at a Northwest Passage to Europe. On the way north the voyagers touched (discovered) the Sandwich Islands, so named after Lord Sandwich but later called the Hawaiian Islands, where Cook met his death on his return from the North". -- Cox I, 63. (Inventory #: 317949)