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France’s first official circumnavigation of the world – and the naming of a flower
Set of Cook’s three voyages, with the plates and maps bound separately in three atlas volumes
“Whoso committe themselves unto the huge, and mayne Ocean, in a small vessell, may sooner expect to be swallowed in that vastity of waters, through the rage and furie of the Sea, then [sic] hope to gaine the desired, and intended haven” (Lok)
The book documents the printed cartographic record of the discovery of the continent in 1492 to 1670
“The navigator’s vade mecum for the Eastern seas” – one of the most influential English travel books of the sixteenth century
