The Three Voyages of Captain Cook, Round the World (Second Edition)

Fine set of 2 volumes of this uncommon publication detailing the three voyages of Captain James Cook, with Tallis maps of Australia and Australian states, as well as an unrecorded 1842 map of Australia by W. Hughes.

2 volumes. Second edition. London: London Printing & Publishing Company, (1860). 4to. Bound in half tan calf and marbled hardcover boards. Pages: vol.1: frontispiece, title, xx, [xxxii], 596; vol.2: frontispiece, xi, [xxvi], 556. Includes numerous steel engravings, portraits, and 13 maps.

Two volumes bound in contemporary half tan calf and marbled boards. Edges marbled. Near Fine. Leather smooth, supple, and well preserved. Binding tight with only very mild cocking in volume 2. Contents near fine, only mild age toning towards edges. Included engravings, maps, and illustrations clear and well preserved. Colours bright. A fine-bound copy of an integral work of the voyages of an important figure in Australian history.

Detailed accounting of Cook's three voyages around the world. Features numerous steel engravings based on illustrations from the Cook journals and other artists of note. Portraits of Cook and Joseph Banks and a compliment of maps by John Tallis. Many of these maps now bear the London Printing and Publishing Company imprint.

Also included is an apparently unrecorded map of Australia by W. Hughes dated 1842. The States shown are Western Australia, South Australia, Australian Felix, Van Diemen's Land, and New South Wales.

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