First Voyage. Being the full & authentic Story of the great Discoveries made by Lt. James Cook, R.N. commanding H.M. Bark Endeavour--in the great South Seas in the Years 1768-1771.
London: Andrew Melrose, 1954. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good copy lacking the dust jacket. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "undiscovered southern land" Item #28150
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