(John Rickman) - Troisième voyage de Cook, ou Journal d'une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. - Versailles/ Paris, Poinçot/ Belin, 1783. - Contemporary mottled calf with gilt morocco letterpiece and gilt spine in compartments, gilt border, complete with a folding frontispiece depicting the death of Captain Cook and a folding map. LXIV, 354 (=454). Condition: Binding slightly rubbed and chafed, otherwise in very good condition. * James Cook (1728 – 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy, as well as a renowned explorer and skilled mapmaker. Between 1768 and 1779, he commanded three major expeditions across the Pacific and Southern Oceans. During these voyages, he achieved the first documented circumnavigation of New Zealand’s principal islands and led the earliest recorded European expeditions to Australia’s eastern coastline and to the Hawaiian Islands.