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[TRAVELS AND VOYAGES]. COOK, Captain James (1728-1779). A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775… In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of the Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships… London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777. 4tos. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece in volume I by Hodges, and 63 plates, charts, and folding maps. 2 volumes. xl, 378; [viii], 396 pp. Approximately 11 ¼ x 9”. Bound to style in modern half brown cloth over marbled boards, modern brown gilt morocco lettering labels on spines, modern endleaves (some occasional toning, soiling, foxing, offsetting in text, bookplate of Owen N. Wilcox on early binder’s blank). Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF COOK’S SECOND VOYAGE. Cox I, 59. Hill Collection, volume I, p. 61. Mitchell Library Cook Bibliography 1216.