A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. : Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third, and last voyages, undertaken by order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c., &c., &c. and successively performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771-1772, 1773, 1774, 1775-1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. The first voyage being professedly undertaken in his Majesty's ship Endeavour, for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and round the world. The second in the Resolution and Adventure, for making discoveries towards the South Pole, and round the world. The third and last in the Resolution and Discovery, to the Pacific Ocean ... and To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world ... those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, ... / The whole of these voyages of Capt. Cook, F.R.S. &c., now published under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, Esq. ; Assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.

"The present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers."

Publication date from reference sources.

Signatures: [A]²B-8B² 8C⁴.

Frontispiece plate entitled: The genius of the work instructing youth in the conduct of those illustrious circumnavigators ... Signed Dodd delin.; Pollard sculp.

"A list of subscribers to this work" appended.

Title on p. [5] reads: A genuine and complete history of the whole of Capt. Cook's voyages ...

Includes accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, and Sir F. Drake.

Includes portrait of Cook entitled: 'A striking likeness of the late Captain James Cook ... drawn from an original painting & engraved by Mr. Thornton' and dated 1784.

Publisher's device on t.p.

English short title catalogue, N5224

Beddie, M.K. Cook, 18

Cox, E.G. Travel, I, p. 22

title page and frontispiece with portrait of Captain James Cook ; "A family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand" Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2006

Copy 1. Binding: calf, blind tooled edges; spine rebacked 19th century, gold tooled, raised bands, compartments decorated by crowns, red calf label gold tooled. Spine title: Cook's voyages. Provenance: ownership inscription: Whetstone; bookplate of Alexander H. Turnbull. Lacks frontispiece plate. Acc. 303.

Copy 2. Binding: 20th century half calf, decorated paper; spine gold tooled in decorated compartments, black tooled in zig-zag pattern, raised bands, black leather spine label. Spine title: Cook's voyages. Provenance: bookplate of Alex H. Turnbull. Plate after p. 384 inserted upside-down. Portrait of Cook and folded map bound in after p. iv. Acc. 310.

Copy 3. Binding: 20th century green imperial morocco cloth, spine blind tooled, lettered in gilt, green patterned end papers. Spine title: Cook's voyages. Provenance: ownership inscription: Formerly in the Colin Library, Mt. St. Mary's Seminary Greenmeadows, Taradale, deposited in the Alexander Turnbull Library by the Society of Mary, December 2001. Title page missing, preliminary pages in poor repair (some remounted), photocopies provided of t.p., frontispiece, preface and p. 7-10. Portrait of Cook remounted before frontispiece. Acc. 394118.

Copy 4. Binding: 20th century half black leather, black buckram blind tooled, spine gold tooled lettered in gilt. Spine title: Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages. Provenance: 19th century ownership inscription on verso of frontispiece: J.B. Gapper; book stamps and issue slips of N.Z. Government Country Library Service, transferred to the Alexander Turnbull Library, 2004. Lacks frontispiece plate entitled 'The genius of the work...'. Acc. 293158.

Digital image available: title page and frontispiece with portrait of Captain James Cook, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 4. Details on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.

Digital image available: "A family in Dusky Bay, New Zealand", Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy 4, plate opp. p. 54. Details on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.