Cook, Capt. James
Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World...Including Capt. Furneaux's Journal Of His Proceedings during the Separation of the Ships With a Narrative of Commodore Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole. and An Abridgement of Foster's Introduction to his History of Northern Discoveries on the progress of navigation. To which is added, Governor Phillip's Voyage to Botany-Bay; With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island. Newcastle: Printed by M. Brown at the Bible, in the Flesh-Market, 1790. 8vo (3 vols of 4 (of 2 bound in 4). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards; pp. I: i-xxvi, 27-564; II: 565-692 [end of First Voyage], [693-694], 695-1004 [Second Voyage], [1005], 1006-1022 [Rules for preserving the health of seamen]; IV: 499-779 [Third Voyage], [780-2], 783-863 [North Pole], [864]-870 [Foster's Shipbuilding], [871-2], 873-953 [Governor Phillip], [954]-796 [(i.e. 976 [2 (Directions to Binder)), Animals]; I: port. frontis., map (torn with loss of folding half), 6 plates; II: one plate (of 3); IV: 15 plates (Death of Cook folding). Later, seemingly rare, provincial edition.
This edition appears to have been issued first in parts (as there are various signatures in parts at foot of some pages). The additional material was added to draw in the reading public.
Forbes, Hawaiian Nat. Bib. Vol. I, 190. ESTC N26645