(COOK, JAMES; Captain.) Ledyard, John. A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean

(COOK, JAMES; Captain.) Ledyard, John. A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Lacking the map, as usual. 208 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, cocked; lacks the front free endpaper, browning and staining throughout; later ink scribblings on the front pastedown. Hartford: Nathaniel Patten, 1783

first edition of the first american account of cook's third voyage and the first american book on the northwest coast. Ledyard's account of the third voyage, in which he served aboard the Resolution, precedes the official account. Copies with the map are the exception and Forbes suggests that it may not have been issued with all copies. Forbes 52; Beddie 1603; Hill 991; Streeter Sale 3477; Howes L181; Sabin 39691; Evans 17998.
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