James Cook

2. James Cook - Carte De La Nle Zealand Map NZ From French Cook Ist Voyage Lithograph 50.0 x 39.0 more info... An important map of New Zealand showing track of Cooks' Endeavour with relief shown by hachures and bathymetric soundings. The map is taken from the first French edition of Hawkesworth's description of Cook's first voyage titled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis et le capitaine Cook dans les vaisseaux "le Dauphin ", "le Swallow" and "l'Endeavour".

Lot 153 JAMES COOK (american, b. 1947) "WAKE OF THE BARGE, WI" Signed 'COOK' bottom left , oil on paper Executed in 1986 sheet: 22 1/4 x 65 1/2 in. (56.5 x 166.4cm) provenance: Tatistcheff Gallery Inc., New York, NY. Lehman Brothers. Note: This lot is to be sold not subject to a reserve. Estimate $400-600 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Freeman's Conditions of Sale.

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of his Majesty of Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere, 4 vol. (including atlas volume), second edition, 64 (of 87) engraved plates, a few short tears without loss, several small wormholes in margins of plates, contemporary half calf gilt, joints cracked, spines torn with some loss, atlas in later half cloth, upper joint detached [Beddie 1552], 4to and folio, H. Hughs, 1785

New York: Tiebout and O'Brien for Benjamin Gomez, 1796. Four volumes. Octavo (8 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches, 210x122 mm). Folding chart of Karakooa Bay and the Sandwich Islands, engraved folding Death of Cook plate and 46 engraved plates. Contemporary sheep . Condition: Some staining and spotting, folding chart detached and with a repaired tear, extraneous creases with some minor losses along the folds to the Death of Cook plate, scattered other minor tears to text; bindings rebacked and recased, covers worn. Provenance : unidentified contemporary armorial bookplate on the volume one front pastedown (partially abraded, bookplates removed from the other front pastedowns).first american edition of the official account of the third voyage. “The first American edition of Cook's third voyage, published in New York in 1796, reveals much about the limited ability of publishers in the United States to produce illustrated travels (or illustrated books of any sort). The three large quarto text volumes and folio atlas of engravings of the London, 1784 edition appear in four small octavo volumes, with the plates much reduced and crudely recut … Nonetheless, with 47 plates, the book was the most extensively illustrated travel narrative published in the United States before the 1820's” ( Reese and Miles, The Illustrating Traveler, digital exhibition catalogue ). A set rarely encountered at auction and seldom found complete with maps and plates. Evans 30274; Howes 729a (note); Sabin 16251.

An Account of the Voyages ... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... by John Hawkesworth. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777-78 ¿ A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World ... Performed ... in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 ... by James Cook. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 ¿ A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean ... for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere ... in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 ... by Captain James Cook [and] Captain James King. London: W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol, 1784 Together 8 volumes, 4to (11 x 9 in.; 279 x 228 mm) and one atlas folio (21 3/4 x 17 in.; 553 x 432 mm). 3 engraved frontispiece portraits, 203 engraved maps and plates (84 folding); generally crisp and clean, but with occasional foxing, one title-page and one folding plate browned, a few folding maps with neat repairs at folds, a few plates closely cropped. Uniformly bound in half brown morocco, spines gilt with morocco lettering pieces, brown buckram sides; some wear, spines renewed with backstrips laid down. PROVENANCESidney T. Miller, Jr. (bookplates) LITERATURE AND REFERENCES Hill, Pacific Voyages, pp. 61, 139; PMM 223; Sabin 16245, 16250, 30934 CATALOGUE NOTE First editions of the second and third voyages, second edition of the first voyage. One of the most influential works ever published in English. Here Cook discovered for the world Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia, Antarctica, the Sandwich Islands, and the Northwest Coast of America. Britain's claims in Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand resulted from these expeditions.