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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Denis Joachim Collection
• Sale Date:
  19 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 1: Lots 1 - 321
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 10am - Session 2: Lots 322 - 480
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 2pm - Session 3: Lot 481 - 688
  20 Jun 2016 ~ 6pm - Session 4: Lots 689 - 818
• Lot #:
  23
• Lot Description:
  Cook, James. A Set of the Voyage Accounts. Comprising: Hawkesworth, John. An Account of the Voyages undertaken…
  for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook... drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq., three volumes, quarto, first edition, as issued without the “Directions for Placing the Cuts” nor the Magellan chart (not in the first issue and usually absent), London, 1773; Cook, James. 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, two volumes, quarto, first edition, London, 1779; and Cook, James and James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean... for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere... in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Discovery, three volumes, quarto (text), and elephant folio atlas of charts and plates, London, 1784. Eight quarto volumes of text, and a folio atlas volume to the third voyage, with all plates and maps, small defect in corner of the chart of the Sandwich Islands in the atlas volume, affecting only the border, bound in tree calf and diced calf of the period, the first voyage rebacked in style with the second and third voyages, the atlas volume in half calf and marbled boards, rebacked retaining the original spine, a very good, sound and uncommonly clean set. London, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, [third voyage: W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol, and T. Cadell], 1773 – 1777 – 1785.
• Notes:
  A complete set in first editions – unusually – of the official accounts of Cook’s three voyages around the world, the cornerstone of any collection of modern voyages. “Captain Cook’s three great voyages form the basis of any collection of Pacific books. In these three voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors together had done. He was the first really scientific navigator, and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge…” (Hill). Beddie, 648, 1216, 1543; Davidson, pp. 49 – 53; Forbes, 62 (“arguably the single most important book on the Hawaiian Islands”); Hill 2, 782, 358, and 361; Holmes, 5, 24, and 47; Renard, 369; Rosove, 77.A1; Sabin, 30934, 16245, and 16250.
• Estimate:
  A$30,000 - 40,000
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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