A Voyage Round the World, in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Resolution, Commanded

by Capt. James Cook, During the Years 1772, 3, 4, and 5. Volumes I-Ii by Johann Georg Adam Forster

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First edition

Contemporary tan calf, maroon morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers First edition, with Forster's large folding chart of the Southern Hemisphere. This, the first published account of Cook's second voyage 1772-1775 , was published six weeks before Cook's official version. Forster's work is substantial, even though it was speedily produced to rival Cook's work. The German naturalist Forster and his father, Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798 , had served as the

• Binding: Leather

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