COOK, JAMES from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: C. Buckton and sold by P. Elmsly, 1788. ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST PUBLICATIONS ON COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE. This is the first scientific publication relating to Captain Cook's first voyage on HMS Endeavour (1768-1771) to the Pacific. Officially it was to observe the transit of Venus in the South Pacific but secretly it was to search for… Read more about this item

1840. Print. Very good condition. Joseph Banks [1743 - 1820] was an English naturalist, botanist and explorer who sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavor as a natural historian and was later president of the Royal Society for over 41 years. Collection of 9 copper engravings, sizes range 3.5 x 5.25" to 7.25 x 10.75", printed from… Read more about this item

London: W. Byrne, No. 79 Titchfield Street & J. Webber, No. 312 Oxford St., 1784. First printing. Print. Very good condition. The separately published image by Webber of one of the iconic images of the 18th century. Cook, already a successful navigator, was immortalized after his death at the hands of Hawaiian natives at Karakakoa Bay. Cook had… Read more about this item

1790. Otherwise Good.. Early copper engravings of the Death of Cook and Kamtschatka. Two engravings 6 1/4 x 4 1/4" on a sheet 9 1/2 x 7 1/2", toning and foxing in margins.

London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Copper engraving , folded, printed on watermarked paper . Impression size 12 ins x 14 ins. The work of John Frederick Miller (fl.1759-1794), the artist was employed by Joseph Banks to make drawings of some of the specimens collected on Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in the Endeavour. This image appeared as plate… Read more about this item

Boydell, 1802. Large color aquatint of Russian woman and child. Set in a wintry landscape with a log cabin style cottage in the background, a woman and young boy are out for a stroll; the boy pulling a sled on a rope. The woman is handsomely dressed in pink fur lined floor length coat with matching hat and fur… Read more about this item

Boston: Charles H. Peabody, 1830. Third edition, improved. Hardcover. Good condition. Biographies of important figures, including Captain James Cook and Washington Irving, complete with the copper engraved frontispiece portrait of Dewitt Clinton, and 12 other engraved portraits. The Captain Cook biography notes the Royal Society's awarding of the Copley gold medal to Cook, and the June 8, 1779… Read more about this item

London: Printed for C. Cooke by J. Adlard, 1801. Hardcover. Good -. Two large thick volumes, the first volume with Book 1, pertaining to Captain Cook's voyages and including the folding map of Cook's Pacific voyages, and engravings, including of kangaroo ("A singular Animal called Kanguroo found on the Coast of New Holland", p236) and the Portrait of… Read more about this item

London: J. Wilkes, 1800. Very good condition. An engraved portrait of Captain Cook, turned slightly right, wearing a naval uniform and wig, after the original by Dance. Featuring a rectangular vignette underneath the oval portrait, depicting Cook just before his death in Hawaii, his arm raised to stop his soldiers from firing at the crowd of… Read more about this item

London: G. F. Cruchley, 1833. First edition. Map of the world on Mercator projection showing the exploratory tracks of Vancouver (two voyages), Captain Cook (three voyages), Ross, Flinders, La Perouse, Furneaux, Weddell, and Phipps. In Australia, the Swan River is recorded, but not Perth. On verso two folds have a printed paper label listing works… Read more about this item

1814. An excellent example of John Thomson's 1814 map of the world on Mercator's projection. Published in the 1814 edition of Thomson's General Atlas, this map was drawn to illustrate the great voyages of discovery of the late 18th century, most specifically Cook, Perouse, and Vancouver. Exploratory routes zigzag through the oceans and seas of this map, showing important… Read more about this item

London. Very good condition. Copper engraved map of Macao, China and the islands in its vicinity. From the English edition of "Cook's Voyages". Within the plate is a note - "NB. The Harbour of Macao is drawn by the Eye and the Soundings taken at low water." Full impression marks from the plate visible, with small margins, the… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 1997. Second series of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 13. Hardcover. Near fine. A re-creation of the voyage of discovery of Captain James Cook's ship 'Endeavour' to Australia, which was awarded the Douglas Stewart Prize for non fiction as well as the NSW Book of the Year. The most painstaking and comprehensive study… Read more about this item

London: Alexander Hogg at the Kings Arms, No. 16, Paternoster Row, 1790. Attractive map of the Hawaiian Islands with Cook's tracks charged, as well as an inset map of Karakakooa Bay marked, "Here Capt. Cook was killed". Copper engraving, 13 3/4 x 9" with small margins. T. Conder Sculpt. "Accurately Engraved for Anderson's Large Folio Edition of the Whole… Read more about this item

Edinburgh, 1799. Two attractive double hemisphere world maps showing the track of the Resolution, James Cook's ship during his 2nd voyage from 1772 to 1780. The Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. Likely from a Scottish edition of Cook's Voyages, the map illustrates the discoveries of Cook's 1st voyage, and the discoveries and tracks of… Read more about this item

London, 1787. Engraved for Anderson's History of Commerce, printed at the Logographic Press". The Western and Eastern Hemispheres on Mercator projection with Cook's three voyage tracks & Anson's voyage noted with dates. Australia is shown connected to Tasmania, before Bass Straits were mapped. Attractive copper engraving with a lined area surrounding the hemispheres with shading. A map with the… Read more about this item

London: Urbanus, Sylvanus, 1776. Very good overall. Plan of the siege of Quebec, published in Gentleman's Magazine, showing the St. Lawrence and British and French vessels. During the Seven Years' War, James Cook served in North America as the master of the 'Pembroke' (1757), and in 1758 was part of the major amphibious attack that captured… Read more about this item

Venezia: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1842. Good + overall. A section from an Italian work on the people of the world, this section pertaining to Hawaii and Captain Cook's discovery of the "isole de Sandwich". The text describes the previously unknown islands of Hawaii and their inhabitants: "che queste isole non sieno state conosciute ad altro Europeo innanzi all arrivo… Read more about this item

London: G. Carter, 1784. Proof. A notable rarity in a proof edition with scratched text below the image, after letters of the most beautiful depiction of the death of Captain James Cook. The artist, George Carter, was not an eyewitness to the events in Hawaii, but his imagery and care in reconstructing the event places it as… Read more about this item

London: J. Nichols for D. Henry, 1781. Hardcover. Very good condition. Contains an important article on the death of Captain James Cook in a review of the first full account in English of Cook's third voyage, published three years earlier than the official account. The book is attributed to Lieutenant John Rickman, who served as second lieutenant on… Read more about this item