Captain Cook
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.Original price $33,083.00 - Original price $33,083.00Original price $0.00$33,083.00$33,083.00 - $33,083.00Current price $33,083.00| /'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.Original price $13,234.00 - Original price $13,234.00Original price $0.00$13,234.00$13,234.00 - $13,234.00Current price $13,234.00| /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.Original price $1,324.00 - Original price $1,324.00Original price $0.00$1,324.00$1,324.00 - $1,324.00Current price $1,324.00| /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].Original price $2,978.00 - Original price $2,978.00Original price $0.00$2,978.00$2,978.00 - $2,978.00Current price $2,978.00| /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].Original price $3,640.00 - Original price $3,640.00Original price $0.00$3,640.00$3,640.00 - $3,640.00Current price $3,640.00| /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.Original price $1,324.00 - Original price $1,324.00Original price $0.00$1,324.00$1,324.00 - $1,324.00Current price $1,324.00| /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).Original price $1,985.00 - Original price $1,985.00Original price $0.00$1,985.00$1,985.00 - $1,985.00Current price $1,985.00| /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.Original price $19,850.00 - Original price $19,850.00Original price $0.00$19,850.00$19,850.00 - $19,850.00Current price $19,850.00| /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?]Original price $11,910.00 - Original price $11,910.00Original price $0.00$11,910.00$11,910.00 - $11,910.00Current price $11,910.00| /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).Original price $993.00 - Original price $993.00Original price $0.00$993.00$993.00 - $993.00Current price $993.00| /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 Second Voyage round the world, in the Years MDCCLXXII, LXXIII, LXXIV, LXXV.
[COOK'S SECOND VOYAGE].Original price $60,000.00 - Original price $60,000.00Original price $0.00$60,000.00$60,000.00 - $60,000.00Current price $60,000.00| /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.Original price $4,301.00 - Original price $4,301.00Original price $0.00$4,301.00$4,301.00 - $4,301.00Current price $4,301.00| /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.Original price $26,467.00 - Original price $26,467.00Original price $0.00$26,467.00$26,467.00 - $26,467.00Current price $26,467.00| /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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Death of Captain Cook in February 1779,
WEBBER, John (after); BARTOLOZZI, Francesco (engraver) & BYRNE, William (engraver).Original price $8,933.00 - Original price $8,933.00Original price $0.00$8,933.00$8,933.00 - $8,933.00Current price $8,933.00| /Rare oval variant of the well-known Bartolozzi engraving of Cook's death. Webber completed his oil painting of the scene soon after returning t...
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Débarquement à Mallicolo l'une des Nouvelles Hébrides.
[HODGES, W.] (after); BERNARD, [Robert] (engraver).Original price $1,985.00 - Original price $1,985.00Original price $0.00$1,985.00$1,985.00 - $1,985.00Current price $1,985.00| /After plate 60 in the official account of Cook's Second Voyage: The Landing at Mallicolo, one of the New Hebrides published 1st February 1777. The...
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View of a Fiatooka or Burying Place in Tongataboo.
WEBBER, John; THORNTON, John (engraver).Original price $2,316.00 - Original price $2,316.00Original price $0.00$2,316.00$2,316.00 - $2,316.00Current price $2,316.00| /A particularly fine copy of Webber's view of one of the carefully tended ceremonial burial grounds on the island of Tongatapu, the main island of ...
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An Offering before Capt. Cook, in the Sandwich Islands.
WEBBER, John (after); HALL, [John] & MIDDIMAN, [Samuel] (engravers).Original price $1,985.00 - Original price $1,985.00Original price $0.00$1,985.00$1,985.00 - $1,985.00Current price $1,985.00| /This engraving after a drawing by Webber comes from the official account of Cook's Third Voyage, published in 1784. The Resolution and the Discove...
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View in the Island of Cracatoa.
WEBBER, John.Original price $2,647.00 - Original price $2,647.00Original price $0.00$2,647.00$2,647.00 - $2,647.00Current price $2,647.00| /A beautiful print from the earlier issue of Webber's Views in the South Seas. The Resolution and Discovery anchored off Krakatoa on their journey...
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Waheiadooa. Chief of Oheitepha lying in State.
WEBBER, John.Original price $2,647.00 - Original price $2,647.00Original price $0.00$2,647.00$2,647.00 - $2,647.00Current price $2,647.00| /One of the most well-known images from the earlier issue of Webber's Views in the South Seas. The body lying in state was that of a young chief by...
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James Cook Surveyor of Newfoundland
SKELTON, R.A. (editor).Original price $331.00 - Original price $331.00Original price $0.00$331.00$331.00 - $331.00Current price $331.00| /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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Joseph Banks Esq.
REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (after); DICKINSON, William (engraver).Original price $9,925.00 - Original price $9,925.00Original price $0.00$9,925.00$9,925.00 - $9,925.00Current price $9,925.00| /Sir Joseph Banks as a young man. A beautiful example of this classic image of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as a young man, at the height of his cel...
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The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand; A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite; Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captn. Cook; Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their Habitations.
WEBBER, John; POUNCY, B.T. (etching) & WOOLLETT, W. (aquatinting).Original price $12,572.00 - Original price $12,572.00Original price $0.00$12,572.00$12,572.00 - $12,572.00Current price $12,572.00| /Four proof plates before letters from Cook's third voyage. Four proof plates before letters being early states of images from Cook's last voyage, s...
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