[COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE]. A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. To which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships. In Two Volumes. Illustrated with Maps and Charts, and a Variety of Portraits of Persons and Views of Places, drawn during the Voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by most eminent Masters. The Second Edition. [3 volumes; 2 volumes of text, 1 volume of plates].

Cook's Second Voyage

Maps and plates bound in a separate volume.

[3 volumes; 2 volumes of text, 1 volume of plates]. Frontis, i-xxxvi, 378pp + [8],396pp + 63 plates. Collated complete. Quarto. 11½ x 9 inches. Original brown leather boards, professionally rebacked with the original spines laid down. General wear and scuffing to each volume, particularly at the corners. Frontis portrait of Cook trimmed close, with lower portion of text shaved. Bookplates. Very minimal foxing, bright and clean throughout.

Second edition, published the same year as the first. 3 volumes; aside from the frontis portrait of Captain Cook in the first volume, all of the other plates and maps called for are published separately in a third volume. The official account of Cook's second voyage and his first as commander of the Resolution (1772-1775). The success of Captain James Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents. The men on this expedition were the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island, The Marquesas, Tahiti and the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, and a number of smaller islands. [Beddie: 1217; Hill: 358; Sabin: 16245].

Bookplates of G. C. Bainbridge and Charles Savile Roundell. Charles Savile Roundell (1827–1906) was an English cricketer, lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1880 and 1895.