Coxe, an English priest and historian, at one time based in St. Petersburg, endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Complete set of the four sepia aquatints. John Webber, the official artist on Cook's Third Voyage, produced a remarkable body of work to illustrate...

A fine engraved portrait of Sydney Parkinson, the young Scots artist who travelled on the Endeavour as Joseph Banks's botanical illustrator. Foll...

One of the most famous shipwreck disasters in the eighteenth century, the Guardian was wrecked on an iceberg twelve days out of Cape Town. Command...

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...

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

11th presentation memorial. A great rarity: an original quiros presentation memorial. 'The discovery of the Southern Continent, whenever, and by w...

Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher. Forced to flee his native Liege in the Spanish-controlled Southern N...

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...

Important collection with fine maps. Valuable collection of voyages to the South Pacific which aimed to stimulate French discovery and colonisation...

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...

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

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...

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