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H i s t o r y , P h i l o s o p h y & R e l i g i o n 53 Fine New Acquisitions H alloween 2020 Cook’s Complete Illustrated Voyages, With Fine Hand-Colored Maps 51. COOK, James. The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World. London, 1852. Two volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter tan calf (Volume I rebacked with original spine neatly laid down). $4200. Click for more info Handsomely bound 19th-century edition of Captain Cook’s complete voyages, with 12 hand-colored folding steel-engraved maps showing the courses of his travels and 145 in-text wood-engravings, with frontispiece portraits, engraved vignette title page in Volume I, and a full-page engraving of “The Death of Captain Cook” in Volume II. “The famous accounts of Captain Cook’s three voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific books. In three great voyages Cook did more to clarify the geographical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his predecessors had done together. He was the first really scientific navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many fields of knowledge” (Hill, 61). Text clean and bright, contemporary calf-gilt with light expert restoration, near-fine and handsome.