Beschreibung:

INCLUDES RARE MAP. Journal of the Resolution's Voyage, In 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 on Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere ... also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774 with an Account of the Separation of the Two Ships and the Most Remarkable Incidents that Befel Each.... London: F. Newbery, 1775. xiii, [1 errata], 328 pp. Folding chart, 5 engraved plates, plus an additional folding chart: "Part of the tropical Discoveries of the Resolution Sloop, Captain J. Cook in 1774." 8vo (206 x 122 mm). Period full calf. Route chart backed and with some damp- and mold-stains, lacking free endpapers, spine and extremities worn. First edition of the rare first published account of Cook's second voyage, and the first book to contain information on the Antarctic regions based on first-hand knowledge. Marra was an Irish gunner's mate who Cook picked up in Batavia. His story was published about a year and a half before Cook's official account became available. "It records many incidents omitted by Cook and gives the reasons which caused Sir Joseph Banks and his twelve assistants to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment" (Hill). The plates include the first views of the Antarctic. The extra frontispiece map is infrequently found. Du Rietz remarks that it "was apparently inserted by the publisher in some unsold copies during the latter half of 1776; today it is to be found in very few copies only. It is a revised corrected state of the map issued with the June issue of the Gentleman's Magazine 1776." Du Rietz 809; Hill 1087; Kroepelien 8090; Sabin 16247; Streeter sale IV, 2408. Provenance: Thomas George Thrum, editor of The Hawaiian Annual and Almanac, first published in 1875, and Hawaiian Folk Tales (bookplate). See illustration.