Voyages.- Cook (Captain James).- [Magra (James)] A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771, first edition, second issue, without dedication leaf, this copy with the two 'Otahitee Vocabulary' leaves bound at end, a couple of small worm trails at blank fore-margin to title and following few gatherings, [Hill 1066; Sabin 16242], T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1771, bound with two works of eighteenth century poetry, together 3 works in 1, slight cockling and speckling to fore-margin throughout, small worm trails to endpapers and pastedowns, traces of bookplate removal to pastedown, contemporary calf, with red morocco labels to spine, joints cracking slightly at ends, 4to.

⁂ First edition, second issue of the first printed account of Cook's first voyage. Public appetite for a detailed narrative encouraged a publishing race, of which this work, published less than three months after the expedition's return to England and almost two years prior to Hawkesworth's authorised version, was the winner. Originally containing a dedication leaf (first issue), this was swiftly withdrawn following the publicly advertised consternation of the dedicatees, the Admiralty, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander. Published anonymously, the work is generally attributed to James Magra, an American mid-shipman aboard.