CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) and CAPTAIN JAMES KING (1750-1784) [Third Voyage] A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by 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: for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy 1784. 4 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13.2cm). Folding world chart and 47 engraved plates. (Lacking portrait frontispiece of Cook, some occaisional browning, short tear to Q2 of vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn, joints weak, some losses to spines, upper cover of vol. 1 partially detached). Provenance : G.J. Black (ownership inscriptions, dated 1890). King succeeded Captain Charles Clerke who had succeeded Cook to the command of the Discovery. On his reutrn to England King was appointed to the Channel fleet, and then to the Resistance, a convoy frigate. The onus of such duty weighed hevily upon his health and he afterwards retired to England. Whilst ill he wrote the concluding narrative of Cook's journals. King died whilst recouperating at Nice. He had been present throughout Cook's third voyage, having been recommended as astronomer to Cook by Dr. Thomas Hornsby, the first Radcliffe observer at Oxford. Mitchell 1545. (4)
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) and CAPTAIN JAMES KING (1750-1784) [Third Voyage] A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by 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: for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy 1784. 4 volumes, 8vo (21 x 13.2cm). Folding world chart and 47 engraved plates. (Lacking portrait frontispiece of Cook, some occaisional browning, short tear to Q2 of vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf (worn, joints weak, some losses to spines, upper cover of vol. 1 partially detached). Provenance : G.J. Black (ownership inscriptions, dated 1890). King succeeded Captain Charles Clerke who had succeeded Cook to the command of the Discovery. On his reutrn to England King was appointed to the Channel fleet, and then to the Resistance, a convoy frigate. The onus of such duty weighed hevily upon his health and he afterwards retired to England. Whilst ill he wrote the concluding narrative of Cook's journals. King died whilst recouperating at Nice. He had been present throughout Cook's third voyage, having been recommended as astronomer to Cook by Dr. Thomas Hornsby, the first Radcliffe observer at Oxford. Mitchell 1545. (4)
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