Cook Captain Joppien Rüdiger (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Melbourne, Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of Humanities, 1985 (the first two volumes) and 1987 (both parts of the third volume) (all first editions). Large quarto, three volumes bound as four (as issued), xvi, 247; xiv, 274; xxii, 234 and [viii], 235-669 pages with hundreds of illustrations (many in colour). Papered boards (first two volumes) and cloth (the second two volumes); covers slightly rubbed; top edges of the second two volumes slightly marked; an excellent set with the excellent dustwrappers very slightly sunned and rubbed, with a couple of unobtrusive creases and short closed tears. 'With a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artifacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage[s]'. [4 items].

First Edition. Three volumes in four, comprising: Volume I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with them. Pp. xvi+248(last blank); Volume II: The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772-1775 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. Pp. xiv+274; Volume III: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, 1776-1780 with a Descriptive Catalogue of all known original drawings and paintings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and original engravings associated with the Voyage. In two volumes: Text: Pp. xxii+234(last blank); Catalogue: Pp. viii+235-670(last blank); profusely illustrated in colour and black & white, appendices, bibliographies, indices; super roy. 4to; brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt; dust wrappers, backstrips sunned/browned; contained within a wide brown cloth slipcase; edge of some leaves slightly marked; Oxford University Press; Melbourne, 1985-1987. All first editions. *The first edition of Volumes I and II was limited to 500 copies, and quickly sold out. Many of the illustrations were previously unpublished, and the text includes an account of each voyage and notes on the artists.

First American Edition. First American Edition. Illustrated. xv, 247; xiii, 274; xxi, 233; 235-669 pp. 4 vols. Folio. "Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to carry professional artists. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages contains all the known drawings and paintings done for these voyages as well as a fascinating narrative and explanatory text by Bernard Smith and Rudiger Joppien. Volume III, describing Cook's final voyages, is of particular interest for its descriptions of the Pacific Northwest of America as well as Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands." Brown cloth. Fine in fine dustjackets Illustrated. xv, 247; xiii, 274; xxi, 233; 235-669 pp. 4 vols. Folio.