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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779)
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) [SECOND VOYAGE] -- James COOK 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 ... In which is included, Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships . London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1784. 2 volumes, 4° (288 x 231). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Basire after William Hodges 14 engraved maps and charts, 4 folding, 2 double-page, 51 engraved plates, 7 double-page and folding, 18 double-page, and one folding letterpress table. Woodcut illustrations and letterpress tables in the text. (Some variable light spotting, browning and offsetting, portrait and a few maps and plates trimmed, vol. I title with light offsetting and damp-spotting, small paper-flaw on I, 2B1, small marginal repair on II, 3E2.) Contemporary English tree calf gilt, early 20th-century gilt spines in a period style, gilt morocco lettering-pieces (endpapers replaced, a few small chips and scuffs on boards, recornered). Provenance : Munden (bookplates dated 1922) -- Edward Cleaveland Sweeney (bookplates) -- Everitt (pencilled names on front free endpapers) -- Corner Tower, December 12, 1937 (inscriptions on front free endpapers) -- pencilled check-marks on vol. I plate list. Fourth edition of the official account of Cook's second voyage, on which he was directed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to search for any southern continent. He made the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle, reaching 71° 10' south, dispelled the myth of Terra Australis, and surveyed his new discoveries: Palmerston Island, Niue, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Of equal importance, he also proved the value of the marine chronometer in determining longitude and lost no men to scurvy aboard his ships. Appended is Sir John Pringle's Discourse upon some late improvements of the means of preserving the health of mariners , prepared from letters he received from Cook in 1776, in which his methods of preventing scurvy and disease at sea were described. Beddie 1229; Conrad p. 10; Rosove 77.A4 (calling for pre- and postliminary blanks not present here); Sabin 16245 (calling for map and 62 plates only). (2)