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The bronze issue of the Royal Society's Cook Medal. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, of which 577 were struck.
The bronze issue of the Royal Society's Cook Medal. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, of which 577 were struck.
The bronze issue of the Royal Society's Cook Medal. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, of which 577 were struck.
The bronze issue of the Royal Society's Cook Medal. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, of which 577 were struck.

[COOK]. PINGO, Lewis.

Royal Society Cook Medal.

London, Royal Society, 1784.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

Royal Society Cook Medal.

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Commissioned by the Royal Society following Cook's death, this is the bronze issue: one of 577. News of Cook's death in Hawai'i in 1779 reached the Royal Society in the following year, and Sir Joseph Banks set about ensuring that Cook was suitably remembered through the commissioning of this medal and the publication of the official account of his Third Voyage. The medal was engraved by Lewis Pingo (1743-1830), who succeeded his father Thomas as Assistant Engraver at the Royal Mint in 1776.

Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, a total of 577 of which were struck, but an additional 22 medals were struck in gold and 322 in silver.

Bronze medal, 43 mm in diameter. Obverse: bust of Cook in relief with the legend ' Iac. Cook Oceani Investigator Acerrimus' (the most intrepid investigator of the seas); reverse: full-length portrait of Britannia, her shield resting by her side, and the legend 'Nil intentatum Nostri liquere' (our men have left nothing unattempted) and 'Auspiciis George III' in exergue.

Beddie, 2790; Nan Kivell (Portraits of the Famous and Infamous), p72.

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The bronze issue of the Royal Society's Cook Medal. Fellows of the Royal Society were entitled to a bronze medal, of which 577 were struck.

Royal Society Cook Medal.

£1,500.00
£1,500.00

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Rare Books, Manuscripts and Prints

Second edition but the first to include the Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. One of the rarest books of its class.
Second edition but the first to include the Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. One of the rarest books of its class.

NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.
Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias... [1766] & [1753].
£9,000.00

First edition of this scarce and important work on Tahiti. Morenhout was sometime US Consul in the Pacific Islands and French consul in Tahiti.
First edition of this scarce and important work on Tahiti. Morenhout was sometime US Consul in the Pacific Islands and French consul in Tahiti.

MOERENHOUT, Jacques Antoine.
Voyages aux iles du Grand Ocean. 1837.
£8,500.00

The first French edition of Sparrman's account of Cook's second voyage.
The first French edition of Sparrman's account of Cook's second voyage.

SPARRMAN, Anders.
Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, 1787.
£800.00

The first French edition of Rickman's acccount of Cook's third and last voyage, which preceded the official account.
The first French edition of Rickman's acccount of Cook's third and last voyage, which preceded the official account.

[RICKMAN, John].
Troisieme voyage de Cook, 1782.
£2,750.00

The first French edition of Marra's journal of Captain Cook's second voyage.
The first French edition of Marra's journal of Captain Cook's second voyage.

[MARRA, John].
Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure. 1777.
£2,250.00

First Spanish edition of Kippis's Life of Cook.
First Spanish edition of Kippis's Life of Cook.

[KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).
Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook. 1795.
£1,500.00

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