cook captain james edited (7 risultati)

Softcover. Reprint. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Nice copy. Black & white illustrations. 292 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition Thus. No library markings or pocket, but a withdrawn stamp (Stanford University Library) on the front free endpaper and the copyright page. 262pp. Illustrations. Fold-out chart. Water-stain at the foot of the spine (not affecting the text), name address date inked at the top of the front free endpaper, else a VG copy in a good dust jacket. Size: Large 8vo (10" tall). Book.

Hardback. 1st thus. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Small chip to the top to spine. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated in black & white by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Maps to endpapers. 292 pages. Adapted from the original Georgian House edition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Cream cloth boards, green title patch to spine. Australiana Facsimile Editions No 188. Black & white plates and facsimile documents (2) & fold-out maps and charts. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 400 pages. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3 - 4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 58 charts and views, 8 pages text, contained in a blue cloth case with ribbon ties. Bumped, rubbed, slight soiling to the covers, wear on the corners, interior and pages clean and bright. Book.

Crown 8vo. & Folio. 6 volumes, set. Original navy buckram, gilt. Volumes 1 and 2 are second printings from 1968 (originally issued in 1955) with the Addenda and Corrigenda incorporated. The remaining volumes are first impressions. Illustrated throughout in black & white and with occasional colour plates including frontispieces. The d/w spines of volumes 1, 2 & 4 are a bit faded and tanned (as usual). Contents clean. Near fine in near fine d/ws. The complete Journals of Captain Cook in very nice condition. 'On the three expeditions which he led to the Pacific between 1768 and his death at Hawaii in 1779, his ships thrice circled the globe; he drew the modern map of the Pacific, and he was the first European seaman to circumnavigate New Zealand, to discover the east coast of Australia, to cross the Antarctic Circle, to chart the north-west coasts of America. [.] The three voyages proclaim his greatness alike as a seaman and navigator, an explorer, a practical scientist, and a leader of men. They were worthily chronicled in his own Journals and charts.' The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, completes the Hakluyt Society edition of the Journals.

Crown 8vo. & Folio. 6 volumes, set. First impressions. Original navy buckram, gilt. Top edge of volume 4 is stained blue. Illustrated throughout in black & white and with occasional colour plates including frontispieces. 1. Light foxing to the edges of the text block and the endpapers. Small mark to the top edge of the front of the jacket near the spine. Very good + in near fine d/w. 2. Fine in fine d/w. 3. (1 & 2) Light foxing to the endapers. Near fine in near fine d/ws. 4. Presentation label on the flyleaf. D/w faded on the spine with some rubbing to the extremities and a couple of very short closed tears to the top edge. Near fine in very good + d/w. 5. Portfolio paper cover has very short tears to the extremities and old tape marks to the overlap. A nice set. 'On the three expeditions which he led to the Pacific between 1768 and his death at Hawaii in 1779, his ships thrice circled the globe; he drew the modern map of the Pacific, and he was the first European seaman to circumnavigate New Zealand, to discover the east coast of Australia, to cross the Antarctic Circle, to chart the north-west coasts of America. [.] The three voyages proclaim his greatness alike as a seaman and navigator, an explorer, a practical scientist, and a leader of men. They were worthily chronicled in his own Journals and charts.' The Life of Captain James Cook by J. C. Beaglehole, the leading authority on Pacific exploration, completes the Hakluyt Society edition of the Journals. The presentation in that volume is to Roy Bridges, Head of the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen, from his colleagues. Bridges was President of The Hakluyt Society from 2002 to 2008. The complete Journals of Captain Cook in very nice condition.