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23 items including:
1. A New, Authentic, and Complete History of Captain Cook's Third and Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean.... [Np]: [Np], [1780s]. 6 pp. 4to, aprox 15 x 9.5 inches. A disbound extract from a larger volume.
2. Troisieme Voyage de James Cook, Autour du Monde.... Paris: Chez la Veuve Petetit, Libraire, 1804. Text volumes 1, 3 and 4 only. [4], xxiii, [1], 194; [4], 244; [4], 254 pp. 12mos. Period calf, gilt titled spine labels and gilt spine devices. An incomplete set, comprising volumes 24, 26 and 27 of the larger work Bibliotheque Portrative des Voyages. Forbes 354.
3. WILSON, ROBERT. Voyages of Discoveries Round the World.... London: James Cundee, 1806. Complete in three volumes. [2], 373, [1]; [4], 403, [1]; [4], 351, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait of Cook in volume 2, 28 additional plates, including one folding. All plates present as called for in binders instructions. Later quarter leather over marbled boards. Leaves untrimmed. Forbes 381.
4. The Pocket Navigator; Consisting of a Collection of the Most Select Voyages.... London: T. Maiden, [1806-08]. Complete in four volumes. [2], 108, 60, 48, 60, [46]; [2], 103, 60, 48, 60, 46; [2], 108, 60, 48, 48, 58; [2], 322 pp. Each volume with 2 frontispieces, and four additional plates for a total of 24 plates in all. 12mos. Uniformly bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt titled spine labels. The Cook voyages are all contained in volume 4. Forbes 391.
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