COMPLETE SET OF COOK'S VOYAGES
1. [First Voyage.] HAWKESWORTH, JOHN - An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1773. 3 volumes. 52 engraved charts, views and other engravings, mostly double page. All with the book plates of Alex H. Turnbull with Duplicate written in pencil, and Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell 2. [Second Voyage.] COOK, JAMES - A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777. 2 volumes. 64 engraved plates, maps and charts, including frontis [portrait]. With the book plates of Earl Waldegrave on Vol.1. & 2 and also N. Vansittart on vol. 2. 3. [Third Voyage.] COOK, JAMES & KING, JAMES - A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. London: W. and A. Strahan, 1784. All with the book plates of Alex H. Turnbull and with Richard Milles. Text of all volumes 295mm approx., contents clean, a few spots and light browning. 3 volumes of text and 1 atlas - 23 engraved charts in text volumes [chart that is lacking is bound into the atlas], the atlas has 61 engraved plates and 24 charts [repeats of the charts in the text].


The complete set has had restoration, new endpapers, some plates have been trimmed, it has been uniformly bound in 20th century brown full leather with titles labels. The atlas bound in half brown leather with marbled boards, the majority of the plates in the atlas have old damp tide line marks and spotting mainly in the margins. The double up charts have also been bound in, these are generally clean with tissue guards between all the leaves. A tidy complete set.