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Shop rare books from Captain James Cook, the pioneering navigator who revolutionised Western understanding of the southern hemisphere.

Through his three monumental voyages, Captain Cook expanded European geographical knowledge of the Pacific, beyond the achievements of his predecessors, blending the art of navigation with scientific discovery. He left behind him a body of work including the official accounts of each of his voyages, the last of which includes a magnificent atlas of plates with stunning views of the South Pacific. Furthermore, the scientists and crew members who participated in the voyages produced numerous publications. Similarly, the artists accompanying Cook on his journey to the Pacific also contributed works, with Webber's ‘Views in the South Seas’ standing out as the only published colour plate book related to Cook's expeditions.

Browse rare books and first editions from Captain Cook’s voyages currently on our shelves now. Explore the detailed insights of Julian Mackenzie, our senior travel and exploration specialist, on the enduring legacy of Captain Cook's voyages.

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  • A Comparative View of the Russian Discoveries with those made by Captain Cook and Clerke.

    COXE, William.
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    'Exceedingly rare' (Holmes). Issued some seven years after the first edition of the author's Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and A...

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  • Dernier voyage du Capitaine Cook autour du Monde,

    ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich.
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    Rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage . A rare surreptitious account of Cook's Third Voyage which appeared nearly three years before th...

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  • A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;

    COOK, James.
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    First octavo edition of the Third Voyage. The first octavo edition of Cook's Third Voyage and the first to reach a wide audience. The text is sligh...

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  • Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure.

    [MARRA, John].
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    Scarce. The French edition of Marras' Journal, possibly translated by Anne Francois Joachim de Fréville. Published anonymously and surreptitiously...

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  • Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou journal d'une expedition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du sud & du Nord, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780.

    [RICKMAN, John].
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    Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery was based on the illicit copy of his journal that Rickman (Second Lieutenant on the Discovery...

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  • Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance,

    SPARRMAN, Anders.
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    Sparrman's work includes accounts of his travels inland from the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope and as assistant naturalist to Johann Forster...

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  • Historia de la Vida y Viages del Capitan Jaime Cook.

    [KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).
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    First edition in Spanish. 2 volumes, small 4to, [ii], x, 262, [i]; [ii], 288, [i] pp., contemporary vellum, spine lettered in ink, a little light...

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  • A Discourse upon some late Improvements of the Means for Preserving the Health of Mariners.

    PRINGLE, Sir John.
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    Includes Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy. A work of huge importance for the inclusion of Captain Cook's paper on the prevention of scurvy....

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  • Otaheite: a Poem.

    [COATES, Rev. Charles?]
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    Tahiti depicted as an earthly paradise. Rare. ESTC lists 12 copies only. Author attribution from old note to title. One of the less common poetic o...

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  • Vie du Capitaine Cook ...

    [KIPPIS, Andrew;] J.H. CASTERA (translator).
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    Both volumes with a different collation to that given in Forbes. First edition in French. 2 volumes, 8vo, lvi, 458; [iv], 497, [i] pp., light wa...

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  • A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771;

    [MAGRA, James].
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    Good unsophisticated example. First edition of the first published account of Cook's first circumnavigation, published two months after the return ...

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  • A Second Voyage round the world, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV.

    [COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE].
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    An officer's account - a legendary Cook rarity. The rarest of all the surreptitious accounts of Cook's voyages, issued with a title phrased to misl...

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  • [The three voyages of Captain Cook].

    [COOK]. FRÉVILLE, Anne François Joachim de.
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    First Swedish editions of Cook's voyages. An attractively bound first edition set of Cook's voyages in Swedish.Three works: I. 2 vols in one, [xxvi...

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  • Remarks on Mr. Forster's Account of Captain Cook's Last Voyage round the World,

    WALES, William.
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    Wales' attack on Forster. One of the rarest items concerning the Second Voyage. 'Wales, who was the astronomer in the Resolution, challenges the a...

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  • James Cook Surveyor of Newfoundland

    SKELTON, R.A. (editor).
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    Cook the surveyor. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles.2 parts, one of 365 copies, ...

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