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Dutch translation of the account of Captain Cook’s third and last voyage

2. COOK, James and James KING. Reis naar den Stillen Oceaan, ... tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het noorder halfrond, ter uitvoering gebragt onder ‘t bestuur van de bevelhebbers Cook, Clerke en Gore in de jaaren 1776, 1777, 1779 en 1780. Met de schepen de Resolution en Discovery, ...Rotterdam, Abraham Bothall and Dirk Vis II, 1788. 4º. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 1650

First edition, with the imprint changed to 1788 by pen, of the Dutch trans-lation of Cook’s account of his third and last voyage, with an engraved frontispiece depicting Cook’s death by the native inhabitants of “Owyhee” (Hawaii). Cook (1728–1779) volunteered in 1776 for a third voyage “to investi-gate the coasts of the north Pacific, and to settle once and for all the question of the northwest passage” (Howgego). Via Cape of Good Hope, Tasmania and New Zealand they reached the Pacific Ocean, where they discovered and mapped several islands. They continued sailing north to the west coast of North America. Sailing south again they mapped some islands around Hawaii. After some natives had stolen one of the Discovery’s boats, Cook came ashore with a small party. The meeting escalated and during retreat Cook was overpowered by some native inhabitants and killed. Clerke gained command and set out to Kamchatka, but died along the way and was buried at Petropavlovsk. James King and John Gore were now in command of the two ships, and started sailing back to Plymouth.Title-page and engraved frontispiece somewhat smudged, some occasional spots and stains, but otherwise in good condition. Binding worn along the extremities, hinges cracked, damaged at the head of spine, sides scratched.

Beddie 1562; Forbes 146; Howgego, to 1800, C175; Kroepelien 209; Sabin 16275; Tiele, Bibl. 268.

Rare reissue of the complete set of the Dutch translation of Cook’s three voyages3. COOK, James. Reizen rondom de waereld door James Cook vertaald door J. D. Pasteur met kaarten en plaaten.Leiden, Jan & Abraham Honkoop; Amsterdam, Johannes Allart; The Hague, Isaak van Cleef, 1803. 13 general text volumes (8º) and 1 atlas volume (2º). With engraved title-pages to the 13 text volumes and 4 letterpress folding tables. With all illustrations in a separate plate volume, including an engraved portrait of James Cook, 134 engraved plates and 52 engraved maps.With: (2) CHEVA LLER A EU, Willem. Bladwijzer der voorvallen en ontmoetingen van den Kapitein James Cook, op zijne drie togten, en der onderscheidene landen, enz. door hem op die togten waargenomen of nieuwelings ontdekt.Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1809. 1 volume (8º).The 14 text volumes bound in contemporary half calf, gold-tooled spines; the plate volume in modern cloth. € 5500

Rare reissue of the first Dutch collected edition of the accounts of Cook’s three voyages, including a short biography of James Cook and with the 14th volume containing the first edition of a com-prehensive index.The first three volumes contain the life of Cook and Cook’s first voyage (circumnavigation) from 1768 to 1771 based on the account by Hawkesworth. Volumes 4 to 7 contain Cook’s second voyage to the South Pole and circumnavigation from 1772 to 1775 based on Cook’s own account with notes from the Journal by G. Forster, and volumes 8 to 13 contain Cook’s third and last voyage to the Pacific from 1776 to 1778, based on the accounts by James Cook and James King. Volume 14 completes the series with a complete index, compiled by Chevallerau.With owner’s inscriptions and each volume with discoloured library stamp. All maps and plates are present, bound in a separate volume. These plates all have old folds and have either Dutch or French captions apparently mixing two different sets. They have some stains, some foxing and browning, and a couple marginal tears; the text volumes however are in very good condition, with some minor thumbing to the first few pages of each volume and leaf T2 in the first volume with a tiny hole and marginal tear in the paper, likely already present when it was printed.

Sloos, Warfare 15352 (vol. 1, 3, 6, 10–12 only); cf. Beddie 52 (first issue); Tiele, Bibl. 268 (first issue).

Epic poem celebrating the history of navigation, from the library of Tsar Alexander I

4. ESMÉNA R D, Joseph-Alphonse. La navigation, poëme.Paris, Giguet and Michaud, 1806. 8º. With an engraved frontispiece and an engraved page plate showing the wreck of La Perouse. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red morocco, with the arms of Tsar Alexander I on the front and back boards, including his imperial monogram, gold-tooled spine, boards edges and turn ins, gilt edges. € 4500

Second edition of a detailed epic poem by Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770–1811), celebrating the history of navigation, in a beautiful binding richly gold-tooled red morocco with the arms of Imperator Alexander I (1777–1825). Esménard’s poem shows his broad knowledge of the voyages of the 18th century. He mentions Bougainville, makes a glancing reference to Malespine, Biron, et Wallis, et Surville, but he reserves most of his attention for “immortelle” Anson and “Sage et malheureux” Cook and la Pérouse..However, these are merely an introduction to the enduring legacy of La Pérouse, the relevant canto is, in effect, a lengthy homage to the great French sailor. It is one of the more beautiful examples of the enduring interest in La Pérouse who, by 1805, had been missing for over a decade. Esménard (1770–1811) writes that the French people, dismayed, still wait and hope for his return, but probably in vain. In fact, both the text and illustration assume that La Pérouse has wrecked on some fatal island.With on both boards the coat of arms of Tsar Alexander I. Lacking the dedication to Napoleon, as can be expected. Some foxing throughout and a small faint waterstain in the upper margin, otherwise in good condition. Corners slight bumped, some very minor wear along the extremities and the inner hinges cracked, otherwise the binding is very good condition and very attractive.

Beddie 3825; Ferguson 427aa; Kroepelien 410; Sabin 22880.

Entomologists in the network of freemasons between American and the French Revolutions

5. FOR STER, Johann Reinhold. [Letter to an unnamed fellow freemason in Braunschweig, probably Ferdinand, Herzog von Braunschweig-Lünenburg or someone in his inner circle].Halle (Saale), 9 August 1781. 4º. Autograph letter in German, signed, written in brown ink on laid paper in a clear German hand, with foreign words and names in a Latin hand. € 12 500

Signed autograph letter from Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), professor of natural history at the University of Halle, member of the Royal Societies of London and Göttingen and very active freemason, to a fellow mason at Braunschweig, passing on information about the London goldsmith and entomologist Dru Drury (1725–1804) and his Illustrations of natural history (1770–1782), explicitly noting that Moses Harris engraved the butterflies for it and that the third volume was in press. It also makes reference to many other figures in the English sci-entific circles, including Joseph Banks and Henry Smeathman. The footnote refers to the engraved portrait of Linnaeus and to the 1781 sup-plement to his Mantissa plantarum, published at Braunschweig.After Johann Reinhold and his son Georg returned from Cook’s second voyage to the South Seas (1772–1775), they joined the masonic lodge Les neuf soers in Paris, established in 1776, where Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Jérôme de Lalande and many other leading intellectuals met and kept in touch.Formerly folded horizontally and vertically for posting and later mounted on a stub (with traces surviving along the main fold). Slightly browned and with minor wear along the old folds, and with some small ink stains, affecting but not obscuring a few words. Still in good condition. A detailed letter giving insights into the important scientific and masonic networks in Europe between the American and the French Revolution.

For background information: Whitehead, “A guide to the dispersal of zoological material from Captain Cook’s voyages”, pp. 53–93, at pp. 68–70; Uhlig, George Forster, especially pp. 136–138.

Excellent, annotated excerpt on James Cook’s second Pacific voyage

6. FOR STER, Johann Reinhold. Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 1774 suscepto.Berlin, Officina Academica, 1844. 8º. With some tables in text. 20th-century half cloth, with the original printed wrappers bound in. € 4950

First edition of an account of the zoology of Captain Cook’s second voyage with exact location of the 305 species described by Latham and named by Gmelin with references to Georg Forster’s drawings. Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) is best known as the naturalist on James Cook’s second Pacific voyage, during which he was accompa-nied by his son Georg Forster. His Descriptiones animalium, completed within a month of returning to England with Cook, remained unpublished until the present edition edited by Heinrich Lichtenstein. It contains some very detailed descriptions of the Cape animals “Promontorium Bonae Spei” (pp. 362–410), also listing the animals of Madeira and Ascension.Front wrapper slightly soiled; back wrapper with small repaired tear. Very good copy, wholly untrimmed and with some bolts unopened.

Beddie 1295; Ferguson 3822; Holmes 90; Nissen, ZBI 1413; cf. Hill 627–629 .

First Dutch edition of 4 English maritime expeditions, including the first official account of Cook’s first voyage

7. H AW K ESWORTH, John (editor). Reizen rondom de weereld, ondernomen . . . tot het doen van ontdekkingen in het zuider halfrond . . .Including:—BY RON, John. [Drop title:] Verkort verhaal der reizen . . . Tocht van den Kommandeur Byron.—WA LLIS, Samuel. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767 en 1768. . . . voerende des Konings schip Den Dolphyn.—C A RTER ET, Philip. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1766, 1767, 1768 en 1769. . . . voerende des Konings sloep De Swaluw.—COOK, James. Verkort verhaal eener reize rondom de weereld, gedaan in de jaaren 1769, 1770 en 1771. . . ., voerende ‘s Konings schip, Den Onderneemer.Rotterdam, Reinier Arrenberg, 1774. 4º. With an engraved frontispiece. With an extra folding engraved world map in 2 hemispheres incorporating Cook’s recent discoveries: Rigobert Bonne, De oude en nieuwe waereld . . . verrykt met de ondekkingen der laatste reizigers, Amsterdam, 1792 (23 × 41.5 cm). Modern cloth. € 1950

First Dutch edition of an important collection of accounts of recent English maritime expeditions, including Cook’s first expedition, edited by John Hawkesworth. “John Byron, in the Dolphin, visited the Tuamoto Islands and Nikunau in what would later be called the Gilbert Islands . . . Captain Wallis, also in the Dolphin, discovered the volcanic island of Tahiti, which he named King George III Island, and Moorea . . . Captain Carteret, in command of the Swallow, became separated from Captain Wallis and was feared lost. He discovered Pitcairn Island and some remote atolls in the South Seas. The first voyage under the not-yet-famous Captain Cook’s command, on the Endeavour, was primarily of scientific nature . . . Entering the Pacific around Cape Horn, Cook reached Tahiti in 1769 and carried out the necessary astronomical observations. Excellent relations with the Tahitians were maintained, and Sir Joseph Banks . . . and Daniel C. Solander carried out extensive ethnological and botanical research. Leaving Tahiti in July, Cook discovered, named, and charted the Society Islands, and . . . explored New Zealand . . . Cook then headed towards Australia and discovered and charted the eastern coast . . ., naming the area New South Wales. Cook’s discoveries won him prominence, promotion, and the opportunity to sail again. They also ensured John Hawkesworth’s position in maritime literary history, as the official chronicler of Cook’s first voyage’’ (Hill).With some water stains at the head of 1 quire (O) and the top edge of the map dirty, but otherwise in fine condition and wholly untrimmed. First Dutch edition of 4 English maritime expeditions, including Cook’s first expedition.

Beddie 658; cf. Hill 783; Holmes 5; Sabin 30945; O’ Reilly & Reitman 367–370.

First edition of the official account of James Cook’s first voyage, with 61 engraved charts, views and other plates

8. H AW K ESWORTH, John. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour.London, W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1773. 3 volumes. Large 4º (29.5 × 24.5 cm). With 28 engraved charts and views of coasts, bays and estuaries (several large folding) and 23 numbered engraved illustrations (topographic views, portraits, etc., mostly folding). Contemporary uniform mottled calf, gold-tooled spines. € 12 500

First edition (first issue) of the official account of James Cook’s first voyage, edited from Cook’s journals by John Hawkesworth. Although Hawkesworth was heavily criticized for his sloppy editorial work and his use of the first person, the account is of great historical significance, especially for its finely executed illus-trations. The first volume relates the voyages of Byron, Carteret and Wallis (the discoverer of Tahiti), and volumes two and three are devoted to Cook’s voyage.

Cook was appointed commander of the Endeavour to sail for Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus and to search for the hypothetical Terra Australis, whose existence had been proposed by the geographer Alexander Dalrymple. In Tahiti he duly observed the transit and then sailed south in search of the southern continent until bad weather forced him to turn north again. In October 1769 the crew sighted the northern Island of New Zealand. Cook spent many weeks surveying New Zealand and his remarkably accurate chart, included in the second volume, remains a major achievement. From New Zealand he steered westward, heading for the east coast of Australia. Cook surveyed and charted almost the whole coast of New South Wales and proved that New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea were two separate islands.According to Holmes there are several issues of the first edition and the “earliest issues lack the directions for placing the cuts and the ‘Chart of the Streight of Magellan’…” (Holmes ). Our copy includes the directions for the binder, but lacks the chart of the Strait of Magellan.All volumes have some leaves foxed or browned, but otherwise in very good condition. Bindings scuffed at the extremities and worn in the joints, with a long crack in the joint of the front board of volume 1, but otherwise good.

Beddie 648; ESTC T74465; Hill 782; Holmes 5; Mendelssohn I, p. 377; Sabin 30934 (“The first edition, to be preferred for its plates”); Howgego, to 1800, C173.

First edition of the first French translation of Kippis’s Life of Captain James Cook,

in the rarer issue and with 2 extra-added portraits9. K IPPIS, Andrew. Vie du Capitaine Cook, traduite de l’Anglois ...Paris, [Charles-Joseph Panckouck], 1789. 4º. With 2 extra-added portraits of James Cook, one (bound in) by Klauber after Dance (“proefdruk”), dated 1793, engraved for Pasteur’s 13-volume Dutch edition of Cook’s voyages; and the other (loosely inserted) by Strunck, engraved for the second edition of Reis naar de Zuidpool (1793), a Dutch translation of Cook’s second voyage. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. € 950

First French edition of the first biography of James Cook, “which, despite its many dis-appointing aspects, should be included in any comprehensive collection” (Davidson). The present copy is in the rarer of two simultaneous issues, without the translator’s name on the title-page (this issue not recorded in the literature, though in some descrip-tions the issue remains ambiguous). Kippis first published his biography in London in 1788 as The life of Captain James Cook. Although it contains some significant errors and is primarily concerned with Cook’s naval career, it provides a valuable account of his three voyages, remaining the standard biography until Young’s Life and voyages of Captain James Cook (1836). Kippis derived his account of Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay from Samwell’s Narrative of the death of Captain James Cook (1786). The appendix contains Helen Maria Williams’s ode to Tahiti, “the Morai”.The present copy is enhanced with two portraits of Cook, engraved soon after the book’s publication.With an occasional minor spot and in the second half an unobtrusive small worm hole in the upper outside corner but still in very good condition and with large margins. The binding is rubbed and the corners and spine damaged, with much of the gold tooling on the spine lost. First French edition of the standard early biography of Captain Cook, with 2 portraits extra added.

Beddie 37 (other issue); Forbes 169 (other issue); Sabin 37955 4º (issue ambiguous).

A key historical text on the Tonga Islands10. M A R INER, William and John MARTIN (editor). An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. With an original grammar and vocabulary of their language.London, John Murray, 1818. 2 volumes. 8º. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Mariner by Bragg after Mouchet, and a folding engraved map of the Tonga Islands. 19th-century half calf. € 1250

Second enlarged edition of an account containing an elaborate dictionary and grammar of the Tonga language as well as several songs. Volume two, moreover, includes some interesting notes on James Cook, who had named the Tonga Islands the Friendly Islands in remem-brance of the friendly reception accorded to him and his crew. With inscription on endpapers and title-pages; volume 1 lacking half-title; spines chafed. Very good set with the armorial bookplate of the Tennant family on front pastedown.

Forbes 487; Hill 1076; Kroepelien 819; cf. Howgego, 1800–1850, M14.

First French edition of Parkinson’s account of Cook’s first voyage11. PA R K INSON, Sydney. Voyage autour du monde, sur le vaisseau de sa majesté Britannique l’Endeavour, … précédé d’un discours en forme d’introduction sur les principaux navigateurs anglais et français qui ont précédé l’Endeavour: suivi d’un abrégé des deux derniers voyages du capitaine Cook, … Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglais. Par le C. Henri.Paris, Guillaume, 1797. 2 volumes. 8º. With 6 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. € 2250

First edition of the French translation of the best of the unofficial accounts of Cook’s first voyage, followed by an extensive summary of Cook’s second and third voyages which takes up most of the second volume. Sydney Parkinson (1745?–1771) was engaged by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany him in the Endeavour to the South Seas, as natural history draughtsman. He made numerous botanical drawings as well as landscapes, portraits of local chiefs etc. “Banks spoke highly of his “unbounded industry” in making for him a much larger collection of drawings than he anticipated. His observations, too, were valuable, and the vocabularies of South Sea languages given in the journal are of great interest” (Hill).Parkinson died on January 26, 1771, on the homeward voyage, and was buried at sea. By the terms of his will, his brother Stanfield claimed all of his drawings and proceeded to make preparations, with the assistence of Dr. Kenrick, for a rival publication to Hawkesworth’s authorized account of the voyage. Hawkesworth succeeded in court in delaying the Parkinson publication till his own edition would have been published, and he further excluded mention of Parkinson in his account. Before the actual publication in 1773, Stanfield Parkinson died of insanity.The present French translation adds an extensive introduction by the translator Captain Henri and the extensive summary of Cook’s second and third voyages as added to the 1784 reissue of the original English edition.With the bookplate of Franz Pollack-Parnau (1903–1981), descendant of a Jewish indus-trialist family from Vienna, who accumulated an impressive library in the family palace on Schwarzenbergplatz, library stamps of the Verein Humanitas from Vienna and a related owner’s inscription on both half-titles. Some spots throughout and the spines restored, but generally in good condition.

Beddie 715; Forbes 277; Kroepelien 946; Sabin 58789; cf. Hill 1308–1309.

Catalogue of the famous Portland Museum, with many objects collected during Cook’s Pacific voyages,

with manuscript prices and purchasers12. [PORTL A ND MUSEUM]. [LIGHTFOOT, John]. A catalogue of the Portland Museum lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction ...With: (2) A catalogue of a very valuable collection of cameos, intaglios, and precious stones, and other curiosities; being part of a late much cel-ebrated cabinet, many out of the Arundel collection; which will be sold by auction ...[London, Skinner and Co., 1786]. 2 works in 1 volume. 4º. With full-page engraved frontispiece showing the interior of the Portland Museum with numerous objects from its collection. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. € 18 500

The auction catalogue of the celebrated collection of Margaret Bentinck Cavendish (1715–1785), Duchess of Portland, with prices and purchasers (and some addi-tional lots) in manuscript. Prepared by John Lightfoot, the Duchess’s librarian, it describes 4156 lots, mostly natural history specimens, but also coins, pictures, china, snuff boxes, books, prints and drawings. The Duchess befriended Joseph Banks and employed the brilliant Daniel Solander to catalogue her collection of shells, aiming to have “every unknown Species described and published to the World” (preface). The sale of her huge collection was held on 38 days and included important ethnographical objects and natural history specimens from the Pacific, many collected during James Cook’s voyages.Both catalogues with prices and purchasers for all tems in a single, neat contemporary hand.With a contemporary etched armorial bookplate and a late 19th-century engraved armorial bookplate. Slight browning, and a few spots on the title-page,but otherwise in very good condition. Binding with boards bowed, splitting the front hinge at head and foot. The catalogue of the famous Portland Museum, with all prices and purchasers.

Ad 1: Beddie 4661; ESTC T28783; Forbes 116; Schuh, Portland 1; ad 2: T13048.

Cook’s third and final voyage of discovery13. [R ICK M A N, John]. Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou journal d’une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduit de l’anglois.Paris, Pissot & Laporte 1782. 8º. With folding engraved frontispiece showing Captain Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay (Hawaii), and a folding engraved chart illustrating the tracks of the Resolution and the Discovery. Later vellum-backed marbled boards. € 3500

First French edition in its second, corrected state, of this unofficial account of Cook’s third and final voyage of discovery, with a colophon on page 508, lacking in the first state. John Rickman served as Second Lieutenant on the Discovery and published his account in 1781, which remained the only book-length report available to the public for more than a year. Despite its defects, the account is of great importance, since, as Glyn Williams has pointed out, “Rickman’s Cook was a more violent Cook than the generally humane and restrained commander of the earlier Voyages.” Fine untrimmed copy.

Beddie 1611; Forbes 45; Kroepelien 1080; this edition not in Hill; cf. Williams, The Death of Captain Cook, pp. 17–22.

Important account of Cook’s final voyage

14. [R ICK M A N, John]. Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou Journal d’une expédition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780. Seconde edition.Paris, Belin, 1783. 8º. With folding engraved plate, illustrating the death of Captain James Cook, and folding engraved chart, depicting the route of Cook’s expedition. Later half calf. € 3500

Second (actually the third) French edition of a rare work by Rickman, Second Lieutenant on board the Discovery, published anonymously, to avoid legal action. Rickman had managed to keep his journal, even though everything was taken into possession and sealed. His account is an important supplement to the official publication, and it is complete with the chart, which Forbes is missing in all of his three copies examined.Some browning and soiling, otherwise in very good condition.

Beddie 1613; Forbes 55; this edition not in Hill; Kroepelien.

Sparrman’s ethnographical objects, collected on Cook’s 2nd voyage

15. SÖDER STROM, Jan Georg Karl. A. Sparrman’s ethnographical collection from James Cook’s 2nd expedition (1772–1775).Stockholm, Aktiebolaget Thule, 1939. 4º (29 × 22.5 cm). With 24 full-page numbered collotype plates, reproducing photographs of artifacts, and a few line illustrations in the text. Original publisher’s green textured cloth. € 750

A rare description of Sparrman’s ethnographical collection, assembled during Cook’s second voyage into the Pacific and now in the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. The detailed descriptions of the objects are preceded by a biographical sketch and a résumé of Sparrman’s narrative of the expedition. The illustrations show objects from New Zealand, the Tonga Islands, Tahiti, Tanna, New Caledonia and the Marquesas Islands.Anders Sparrman, a brilliant pupil of Linnaeus, sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in 1772. There he joined James Cook’s expedition as assistant to the naturalists Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster.With library bookplate, stamps and labels. In very good condition. Binding with minor water damage along the fore-edge but otherwise very good.

Beddie 4711.

Cook’s natural historian on his findings during the second voyage

16. SPA R R M A N, Anders. Tal, om den tilväxt och Nytta, som vetenkaperne i allmänhet, särdeles natural-historien, redan vunnit och ytterligare kunna vinna, genom undersökningar i Söder-hafvet, hållet för Kongl. Vetenskaps-Academien, vid præsisii nedläggande, den 31 Octob. 1778.Stockholm, Johan Georg Lange, 1778. 8º. Bound as sewn. € 1500

First (and only early) edition of Sparrman’s lecture to the Swedish Royal Academy of Science on the need for further scientific research in the South Pacific, especially concerning its natural history. Based on his own observations as naturalist on Cook’s second voyage, 1772–1775, it discusses people, geography and natural history, espe-cially in New Zealand, with comments on particular botanical species (the author was already growing two in Sweden). Sparrman (1748–1820), a botanist and physician who studied under Linnaeus, notes the importance of the still largely uncharted New Holland (Australia), but concentrates on New Zealand. He gives an account of the current state of research and his own vision of the region’s future. The talents of the New Zealanders impressed him, so he thought Europeans could “civilize” them. This was his first publication about Cook’s voyage. A reply by the Academy’s secretary, Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, appears on pp. 36–39.Some marginal dampstain, but otherwise a good copy and wholly untrimmed, with all bolts still unopened. Some copies have an engraved vignette pasted on the title-page, not in the present issue.

Du Rietz, Polynesiana 1217; Stafleu & Cowan V, p. 774; Waller 11011; not in Beddie; Hill.

Extremely rare 1788 Russian edition of Zimmermann’s account of Cook’s third voyage

18. ZIMMER M A N N, Heinrich. Posliednee puteshestvie okolo svieta Kapitana Kuka s obstoiatel’stvami o ego zhizni i smerti …St Petersburg, P.B. [= Peter Bogdanovich], 1788. 8º. Contemporary sprinkled calf. € 28 500

Extremely rare second Russian edition, revised and augmented, of Heinrich Zimmermann’s valuable account of Cook’s third and final voyage, with a description of Cook’s death at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. Zimmermann’s account is followed by articles on Tahiti, a life of James Cook, and an essay on America in general, abridged from the Akademicheskiia izvi-estiia for 1781 and not included in the first Russian edition of 1786. Though Cook famously discovered Hawaii during his third voyage, Russian interest centred on his explorations of the American Northwest coast, where Russian fur traders had tried to establish permanent posts since the 1770’s. Indeed, the first permanent Russian settlement was established only four years prior to the present publication.Zimmermann’s account was first published in Germany in 1781; it was the earliest account of Cook’s final voyage to appear on the continent. It has an “ingenuousness and charm which differentiates it from the other accounts. His appreciation of Cook’s character deserves to rank with that of Samwell” (Holmes).Foot of title-page with owner’s entry (in Russian), back of title-page with stamp of the Russian book collector V.A. Krylov, last page and flyleaf with owner’s stamps. Inner front hinge cracked, some smudges, binding chafed, spine damaged at head and foot, some wormholes. Overall a very good copy of an extremely rare Russian edition of Zimmerman’s account.

Beddie 1570; Forbes 154; Howes 11435; Strathern, Navigations 631 (vii); cf. Holmes 40 (first German ed.).

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