This is an auction for CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY.

This is a Folio Society hardback in new condition, in its original slip case.

This volume provides a complete, reliable and authoritative text of Cook's accounts of his three great voyages in the Endeavour and the Resolution.

From Wikipedia:

"Captain James Cook (1728-1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer. Ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy, Cook was the first to map Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean during which he achieved the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands as well as the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Cook joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He saw action in the Seven Years' War, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. This led to his commission in 1766 as commander of HM Bark Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. Cook accurately charted many areas and recorded several islands and coastlines on Europeans' maps for the first time. His achievements can be attributed to a combination of seamanship, superior surveying and cartographic skills, courage in exploring dangerous locations to confirm the facts, an ability to lead men in adverse conditions, and boldness both with regard to the extent of his explorations and his willingness to exceed the instructions given to him by the Admiralty. Cook died in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific in 1779..."

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Folio Society hardback 1998.

552 pages.

New condition.

The cost of shipping is $6.95.

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