Voyages.- Second Voyage.- Cook (Captain James) A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait by Basire after William Hodges, 63 engraved maps and plates after Hodges, some folding or double-page, folding letterpress table of languages towards end of vol.2, F2 vol. 2 with small marginal loss to top edge, 3D4 vol. 2 with short marginal tear to bottom edge, occasional spotting and off-setting, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hill 358; Mitchell Library Cook 1216; Sabin 16245], 4to, W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1777.

⁂ During this voyage "Cook proved that there was no 'Terra Australis' which supposedly lay between New Zealand and South America, but became convinced that there must be land beyond the ice fields. The men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle." (Hill)