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The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England in 1780.
The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England in 1780.
The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England in 1780.
The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England in 1780.

[COOK, Capt. James].

The Courage and Perseverance Medal.

London [1780].

$13,004.00
$13,004.00

The Courage and Perseverance Medal.

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The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England, via Büsching's Wöchentlichte Nachrichten (Berlin, 1780). The news had arrived in Europe via despatches sent by Clerke and King from Kamchatka, and word quickly spread to England of the events at Kealakekua Bay. The medal was produced in this period before the Resolution and Adventure returned to England in September 1780. This makes the medal one of the earliest artefacts associated with Cook's death. Rare.

Bronze medal (37mm); obverse uniformed bust of Cook three-quarter right, legend 'Capt. James Cook'; reverse inscription in three-lines 'Courage and Perseverance', 'Born 1728 Died 1779' in exergue; small dig to bust forehead, otherwise about extremely fine.

BHM 218.

Stock code 109674

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The Courage and Perseverance medal was struck soon after word of Capt. Cook's death reached England in 1780.

The Courage and Perseverance Medal.

$13,004.00
$13,004.00

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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].
$12,320.00

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.
$11,635.00

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.
$1,096.00

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.
$3,765.00

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.
$3,080.00

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.
$2,054.00

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