(Cook, Captain James 1728-1779); Anderson, George William. A NEW, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE COLLECTION OF VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD, Undertaken and Performed by ROYAL AUTHORITY. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST, SECOND, THIRD AND LAST VOYAGES, Undertaken by Order of his PRESENT MAJESTY, FOR MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES in GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, ASTRONOMY, &c. in the SOUTHERN and NORTHERN HEMISPHERES, &c &c &c. His first Voyage - being professedly undertaken in his Majesty Ship the Endeavour, for making New Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and round the World. His Second - In the Resolution and Adventure, for making further Discoveries towards the South Pole, and round the World. His Third and Last - In the Resolution and Discovery, to the Pacific Ocean, for making new Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, and to determine the Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe....To which will be added, Complete and Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Discovery Round the World, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English Circum-Navigators, &c. under the Sanction of Government, viz. those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, &c &c &c Including a faithful Relation of the Substance of all the most remarkable and important Travels and Journeys, which have been undertaken at various Times to the different Quarters of the World; particularly those of Hanway, Hamilton, Herbert, Drummond, Pocock, Shaw, Stuart, Kalm, Carver, Dalrymple, Burnet, Addison, Barretti, Keysler, Thickness, Twiss, Brydone, Chandler, Johnson, Smollet, Moore, Wraxall, &c....The whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook &c. being newly written by the Editors from the AUTHENTIC JOURNALS of several PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and OTHER GENTLEMEN of the most distinguished Naval and Philosophical Abilities, who sailed in the various Ships, and now publishing under the immediate Direction of GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq. Assisted, very materially, by a PRINCIPAL OFFICER who sailed in the RESOLUTION SLOOP, And by other gentlemen of the ROYAL NAVY. London: printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King’s Arms, no. 16, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by all booksellers and news-carriers, [1784-1786]. Folio, 15-3/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. Bound in full dark red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with rough gilt edges, a three line panel in blind and gold, with gold corner ornaments and blind trefoils. Titled "Cook's Voyages" in gilt on the front cover and between raised bands on the spine. In the center of the front cover is a sailing vessel of the period in full sail, tooled in gold outline, surrounded with a gold tooled circle representing rope. There is a small tear to the head of the spine and the joints and bottom edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. Pages iv, 5-655 + v, with a frontispiece portrait of Cook with a tissue guard, engraved, as follows, at the foot of the plate: "Accurately drawn from an original painting & engraved by Mr. Thornton". Illustrated with 156 plates and charts including the frontispiece and a 12-1/2 inch high by 19 inch wide folding map engraved by Thomas Conder based on notes by Cook and Lieut. Roberts, "A New General Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Captn. James Cook in his First, Second and Third Voyages : With tracks of the Ships under his Command". Due to the tightness of the binding some of the captions at the bottoms of the plates are difficult to read. The book is lacking a plate, "The Landing of Captain Cook at Middleburgh", which appears never to have been bound in. The book includes "Directions to the Bookbinder' [1 page] and "A List of Subscribers to this Work" [4 pages]. Stamped in gilt at the top of the front pastedown is the statement "Bound in England" and at the foot of the front pastedown "Bound for J.W. Robinson Company by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London". The label of the J.W. Robinson Company, Los Angeles, is mounted on the rear blank. The contents are bright & clean with minor flaws only. A beautiful example of this classic book.
The titles for Cook's voyages are as follows: p. [5] "A New, Genuine and Complete History of the Whole of Capt. Cook's Voyages, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority". p. [108] "Capt. Cook's Second Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World". p. [399] "A New, Authentic and Complete History of Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean".
"This compilation of British navigators' accounts of their voyages around the world covers the famous voyages of Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook, as well as expeditions by George Anson, John Byron, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, and Constantine Phipps (Lord Mulgrave). In 1740-44, Anson led a three-year-and-nine-month mission that raided Spanish commerce off the coast of Peru before returning to England via the Cape of Good Hope. Byron made a voyage in 1764-65, during which he discovered the Islands of Disappointment (in present-day French Polynesia) and several smaller islands. Wallis and Carteret set out in 1766 to find a rumored, but non-existent, southern continent at 20 degrees south latitude. Failing to find such a landmass, they went on to discover Tahiti and a number of other islands in what is now French Polynesia, before returning to England in 1769. Mulgrave was the first British Arctic explorer. In a 1773 attempt to find a passage to Asia via what some navigators speculated was an "Open Polar Sea," he made the first scientific voyage aimed at reaching the North Pole. Sailing north from England, Mulgrave and his two ships reached the west coast of Svalbard, Norway, before being forced to turn back by pack ice."- quoted from a description provided by the Library of Congress.
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