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1st Edition - Quarto - Atlas Volume - James Cook's Second Voyage

23 x 27cm (Quarto)

The Volume contains 66 of 66 plates (complete). All engravings by Robert Benard after the Original images by Webber. In good condition overall. Some light marks to images but overall a good copy (please see photos for further details).

The Second Voyage of James Cook (1772-75) was commissioned by the British Government to discover the fabled Southern Continent "Terra Australis". On Cook's 1st Voyage Cook charted the coast of New Zealand and the Eastern coast of Australia - but there was still uncertainty over the existance of a large Southern Continent. Cook was therefore commissioned to circumnavigate the Southern Hemisphere, becoming the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle and reaching 71°10′ South.  In the course of the voyage he visited Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti, the Society Islands, Niue, the Tonga Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Palmerston Island, South Sandwich Islands, and South Georgia, many of which he named in the process. 

This Volume contains the original plates commissioned after the voyage and published in the official account. The volume was never bound and is loosely bound in its original state as it would have been when sold by the publisher (Binding was undertaken and paid for separately in this period).  The first two plates are unbound.

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