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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 #:
  29
• Lot Description:
  Cook. New Discoveries Concerning the World, and its Inhabitants. In two parts
  Part I. containing a circumstantial account of all the Islands in the South-Sea, that have been lately discovered or explored... Comprehending all the Discoveries made in the several Voyages of Commodore (now Admiral) Byron, Captains Wallis, Carteret, and Cook, related by Dr. Hawkesworth, Sidney Parkinson, Mr. Forster, and Captain Cook. Together with those of M. de Bougainville... Part II. Containing a summary account of Captain Cook’s Attempts to discover a southern continent in 1773, 1774, 1775. Octavo, two folding maps and two folding plates, rebound in modern calf-backed boards. London, Printed for J. Johnson, 1778.
• Notes:
  First edition: very scarce. An early compendium on the most recent discoveries in the Pacific, arranged in geographical order, each area with an account of its discovery and subsequent visits by early explorers, including Cook on his first and second voyages. Most of the information appears to have been drawn from Cook, Hawkesworth, Parkinson, and Forster but the compiler also refers to Mendana, Quiros, Le Maire and Schouten, Tasman, Dampier, Roggewein, and Anson. The volume includes the voyage of Constantine John Phipps to the North Pole, with one of the plates showing his ships in the polar ice. The other plate depicts Pacific peoples from Easter Island to New Holland with delightful disregard for geographic niceties, showing a kangaroo beside an Otaheitian lady and with an iceberg floating peacefully in a palm-fringed harbour – in fairness, this “Floating Ice-Island, numbers of which were seen towards the Southern Frigid Zone” is a reasonably excusable misinterpretation of the phenomenon recorded upon Cook’s entry into the Antarctic circle in the course of his second voyage. Beddie, 9; Hill 2, 1219; Kroepelien, 893.
• Estimate:
  A$200 - 400
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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