6 volumes. viii, [9]-372; [2], [373]-792; [2], 793-1184; [2], 1185-1546; [2], 1547-1970; [2], 1971-2246 pp. Edited by Captain John Hogg. Illustrated with large hand-colored folding map plus 162 plates, portraits, charts and maps; including a hand-colored folding plate of the Death of Cook, 3 other hand-colored plates, and 29 folding charts which are hand-colored or hand-colored in outline. Includes the 4pp. binder's directions, but not the 8pp. list of subscribers, both of which, according to Forbes, are often lacking. (8vo) 9x5¼, uncut in original boards. First Hogg Edition.

Stunning set in original boards, with charts and several plates hand-colored, and a rare, handsome edition. Also with interesting early provenance. Each volume bears a gift inscription, "London, February 10th 1790. The Gift of J.P. Braddock to R.P. Braddock on board the Discovery." There is a letter from the London Public Record Office attesting that Robert Braddock was entered on the Books of the H.M.S. Discovery on 5 February 1790, five days before the date of this presentation. He was aged 19 years and was discharged from the Discovery on 12 July 1790. Cook's second vessel on his final voyage was the Discovery. However, Braddock’s ship was more likely the sixth so-christened H.M.S. Discovery, which sailed with Vancouver on his great voyage to the Northwest Coast. Vancouver himself was a 19-year old crewman on board Cook’s Discovery. Braddock may have enlisted for the Pacific, but this voyage was delayed many months due to the Nootka Sound crisis. This set has nearly identical pagination to that described by Forbes, but has several further plates and the large folding general chart. In addition to the account of Cook’s Voyages, there are also the narratives of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and several others. Forbes 96.