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

Paris, Pissot and Laporte, 1782.

$3,742.00
$3,742.00

Troisieme voyage de Cook,

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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) managed to retain, despite the Admiralty's orders that all logs, journals, maps and illustrations should be handed over to Captain King and sealed. Due to this injunction, the work was published anonymously in 1781 (leading to spurious attributions of the text both to John Ledyard and to William Ellis), thus predating the official account by more than two years; 'the text, especially as regards details of Cook's death, differs considerably from other accounts' (Hill, 1453). The English edition was followed by a German translation in the same year and a French translation the following year. The first French edition, which bears the statement Cet Ouvrage s'est imprime avec tant de rapidite, qu'il s'y est glisse plusieurs fautes on the verso of the half-title, is known in two states; the first is uncorrected and has no imprint on p508, and the second, present state is corrected and bears the printer's name at the foot of p508.

First French edition, second issue; 8vo; x, 508 pp., engraved folding frontispiece, folding map, contemporary mottled calf gilt, red morocco label, a fine copy.

Beddie, 1611; Forbes, 45; Spence, p21.

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

Troisieme voyage de Cook,

$3,742.00
$3,742.00

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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.

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First edition of this scarce and important work on Tahiti. Morenhout was sometime US Consul in the Pacific Islands and French consul in Tahiti.
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MOERENHOUT, Jacques Antoine.
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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.
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The first French edition of Marra's journal of Captain Cook's second voyage.
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[MARRA, John].
Journal du second voyage du capitaine Cook, sur les vaisseaux La Resolution & L'Aventure. 1777.
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[KIPPIS, Andrew]; NAVA PALACIO, Don Cesareo de (translator).
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[BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].
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