A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;
undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the northern Hemisphere: performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious... Abridgement of the Voyage written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. and Captain James King... Illustrated with Cuts. In four Volumes...
London, John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784
Four vols, 8vo, copper-engraved portrait of Captain James Cook as frontispiece, folding chart and 48 copper plates (some folding), including a folding plate titled 'The Death of Captain James Cook, F.R.S. at Owhyhee in MDCCLXXIX', lacks large folding map and list of plates, light dampstaining, contemporary polished calf gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spines.
Beddie, 1545.
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