NMLP P-041437 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

Voyages (the official accounts of the three voyages)

Captain James Cook (with Hawkesworth, and King) · First voyage: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1773. Second voyage: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1777. Third voyage: printed by W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, London, 1784 · 1773

No book-club issues exist for these titles. The reprint tells that matter: later editions of each voyage reuse the same or a closely similar London imprint — the second voyage's second edition is even dated 1777 like the first (Beddie 1217 versus 1216) — while the third voyage's second and third editions are dated 1785, the second in four volumes. Abridgements, composite 'authentic narrative' compilations and made-up sets assembled from mixed editions are common in this market, so collate each voyage independently rather than judging the set as a unit; a complete first-edition set requires the third voyage's folio Atlas, which is frequently separated from the text volumes.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041437 for "Voyages (the official accounts of the three voyages)" by Captain James Cook (with Hawkesworth, and King) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041437, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).