COOK (JAMES)


ANDERSON (GEORGE WILLIAM) New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority... [an] Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, engraved portrait frontispiece of Cook, 155 engraved plates, maps and plans, a chart "displaying the Tracks of Capt. Cook" supplied loose from another work, 3 or 4 shaved touching caption, light stain in upper fore-corner of some leaves towards end, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf, gilt-tooled with sail ship ornament within raised bands [Hill 18], folio (395 x 245mm.), Alex. Hogg, [1784-1786]
|"An important compilation of English voyages, richly illustrated... Anderson sometimes gives the original accounts, others are edited or abridged versions, and frequently additional material from other sources are added to give scope and depth to the narratives" (Hill).