A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority.

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Containing a New Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive Full and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty, ... and Successively Performed In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771-1772, 1773, 1774, 1775-1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. ...London: Alex Hogg, (1784- 1786). Thick folio. Bound in full calf with contrasting blind panels on both covers. Spine with raised bands preserving the original title-label. (656pp.). With portrait of Captain Cook, plus additional frontispiece, large folding map, and 151 full-page engraved plates of which 25 are full-page maps. List of subscribers not included. Date below portrait, Sept. 11, 1784. Printed in double-column. A nice copy.