A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World (Easton Press Limited Deluxe Edition)

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COOK, Captain James (ed. George William Anderson). A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015. 2 vols. Tall Folio (approximately 390 × 260mm). Full brown leather, covers and spines profusely decorated in gilt, blue, and green. Spines with six raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Satin ribbon page markers. Illustrated throughout. Facsimile of the original London edition of 1784. Deluxe limited edition. Limited to 800 numbered sets, this being number 241. James Cook made three voyages of Pacific exploration between 1768 and 1780, and between them they transformed European knowledge of the world more thoroughly than any comparable programme of navigation since Magellan. The first voyage (1768–71) carried Cook and the naturalist Joseph Banks aboard HMS Endeavour around Cape Horn and to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus, then southward and westward to chart the coastline of New Zealand and the entire eastern seaboard of Australia — claiming that coastline for the Crown at Botany Bay in April 1770, and naming the harbour of Port Jackson three days later. The second voyage (1772–75) drove HMS Resolution below the Antarctic Circle on three separate occasions, disproving the existence of a great temperate southern continent and establishing the approximate boundary of the Antarctic ice. The third voyage (1776–80) sought the Northwest Passage from the Pacific, reached Hawaii — unknown to Europeans

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