[COOKS SECOND VOYAGE. 1777 DUBLIN EDITION]. 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 Cuts. [2 volumes].

Cook's Second Voyage

1777 Dublin edition

[2 volumes]. Octavo. 8½ x 5 inches. [6], xxx, 372pp + [6], 392pp. 1 folding map, 4 engraved plates. Leather bindings with dark red leather spine labels. Covers well worn, front hinges of both volumes broken but holding, rear hinges starting. Shiny glue residue on each spine and hinge from an earlier attempt at repair. Folding table torn at fold, discolored from old tape repair. Modern bookplates. A good set.

First Dublin edition. 2 volumes of a 4-volume set, complete within itself. The Beddie bibliography notes two 1777 Dublin editions. The first is part of a 4-volume set. "Binder's title: Cook and Forester's Voyage. Consists of the two-volume Dublin editions of Cook's Voyage to the south Pole… and Forster's Voyage around the World…, 1777, each volume having two title pages." (Beddie). This set only has one title page. However, the "Directions for Placing the Cuts" include directions for plates in Foster's Voyage, labeling the volumes as 3rd and 4th in the set. (The two volumes of Cook's Voyage offered here are labeled as the 1st and 2nd volumes of the set). While only the Cook volumes are offered here, it is complete in itself. 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. Another Dublin edition was published in 1784, this earlier Dublin edition is scarce. [Beddie: 1218; Hill: 358; Sabin: 16245].