Complete Second Voyage of James Cook - 1779 - With 64/64 plates including large folding map

"A Voyage Towards the South Pole, and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux’s Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships."

London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1779.

-Third edition, Large Quarto.

Complete:

-Vol. I: Frontis, xl, 378 pp., 36 plates and charts; Plate 1 (Chart of the Southern Hemisphere) torn but without loss.

-Vol. II: (vi), 396 pp., 27 plates and charts.

-Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Cook and 63 engraved plates, maps, charts, and portraits

Bound in Full calf which is worn with tears to leather on boards. Volume 2 spine replaced with cloth. Small split to spine joint on vol. I. Good condition over all. Tear to folding world map at folds.

The official account of Cook’s Second Voyage, which conclusively disproved the centuries-old belief in a habitable Terra Australis Incognita. Cook sailed in the Resolution alongside Furneaux's ship the Adventure. They travelled as far south as they could and circumnavigated Antarctica, coming within a few hundred miles of Antarctica, but were unable to travel further through the ice.  The ships also visited Easter Island, South Georgia, and Tonga, as well as many other Islands in the Pacific.