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ENSKO Stephen Guernsey CookABAA

American Silversmiths and Their Marks IV

Cook CE. C. E.ABAA

Alaska Fishing and Development Company Letters

020033Very Good. A collection of letters from the vice president of the Alaska Fishing and Development Company written to his endearing wife. This collection includes 38 letters from Clair Cook C. E. Cook to his wife Ella Cook plus 6 letters addressed to "Ella" or "Sister" from various family members. Letters are on sheets measuring 6" x 9 ¼" or 8" x 10"; two letters are typed the rest are ALS. All are dated between 1904 and 1905. 16 on Alaska Fishing and Development Company letterhead; 18 on Hotel Donnelly Tacoma Washington letterhead; 1 on American Fish Company letterhead; 1 on St. Helena Sanitarium letterhead; the remaining letters are on plain sheets. Overall very good with light toning and foxing and a few letters have minor chipping along edges not affecting content. About 16 of the letters mention Clair's business dealings most are vague and discuss his travel plans and limited to a few lines. But 7 or 8 of these letters go into detail about the ships used in the business tonnage of fish caught and market prices and the company's stock. In a letter written from Pleasant Bay Alaska on June 2 1904 Clair writes of 10 tons of Halibut ready for market; June 19th 1905 he writes about a visit from "Mr. Stroud" the president and general manager of the company and also about the selling and buying of shares in the company stock; and on May 27th 1905 he writes of the Treadwell Mines in Alaska sending ore to a smelter likely in Tacoma WA. On June 28th 1905 Clair writes "We got up steam and pumped the water out of the ship today trimmed the ship and secured cargo so it would not slide while crossing Queen Charlotte Sound; it sometimes gets a little rough there" All of the letters written by Clair show his incredible devotion to wife. Each letter starts with "Dearest little wife" "Darling precious wife" or "Darling loyal heart" and are filled with Clair's exclaims of ardent love the pains of separation and his wish to be home with his wife and little daughter in California. Although the letters mostly discuss love for his wife the timing of the letters is important. Written just after the Klondike Gold Rush 1896-1900 and when commercial fishing and canneries were becoming increasingly popular along the Alaskan coast these letters demonstrate an interesting perspective of the development of the last frontier. The details of daily life of an officer of a growing fishing company the attractive letterhead and the quantity of letters make this collection important to researchers and historians of American fisheries and the Alaska Territory. . unknown books

Back of Beyond Books, ABAA · États-Unis1 200,00 $US≈ 1 015,32 €

COOK Capt. James 1728 1779ABAA

A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure In the years 1772 1773 1774 and 1775. In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Adventure during the Separation of the Ships

177725578London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell 1777. 2 volumes quarto. 11 x 9 inches. Engraved portrait of Cook by J. Basire after Wm. Hodges 63 engraved plates maps and charts 15 folding 16 double-page 1 folding letterpress table. A few plates trimmed close as usual. Contemporary calf covers with decorative borders tooled in blind expertly rebacked to style spine with raised bands in six compartments red and black morocco labels in the second and fourth the others with a repeat decoration in gilt First edition of Cook's second voyage on which he was directed to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible to search for any southern continent. "Cook earned his place in history by opening up the Pacific to western civilization and by the foundation of British Australia. The world was given for the first time an essentially complete knowledge of the Pacific Ocean and Australia and Cook proved once and for all that there was no great southern continent as had always been believed. He also suggested the existence of antarctic land in the southern ice ring a fact which was not proved until the explorations of the nineteenth century" Printing and the Mind of Man p.135. "The success of Cook's first voyage led the Admiralty to send him on a second expedition described in the present work which was to circumnavigate the globe as far south as possible in search of any southern continents . the men of this expedition became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle. Further visits were made to New Zealand and on two great sweeps Cook made an astonishing series of discoveries and rediscoveries including Easter Island the Marquesas Tahiti and the Society Islands Niue the Tonga Islands the New Hebrides New Caledonia Norfolk Island and a number of smaller islands. Rounding Cape Horn on the last part of the voyage Cook discovered and charted South Georgia after which he called at Cape Town St. Helena and Ascension and the Azores . This voyage produced a vast amount of information concerning the Pacific peoples and islands proved the value of the chronometer as an aid to finding longitude and improved techniques for preventing scurvy" Hill p.123 "This the official account of the second voyage was written by Cook himself . In a letter dated June 22nd 1776 to his friend Commodore William Wilson Cook writes: - 'The Journal of my late Voyage will be published in the course of the next winter and I am to have the sole advantage of the sale. It will want those flourishes which Dr. Hawkesworth gave the other but it will be illustrated and ornamented with about sixty copper plates which I am of the opinion will exceed every thing that has been done in a work of this kind; . As to the Journal it must speak for itself. I can only say that it is my own narrative .'" Holmes pp.35-36. Beddie 1216; Hill 2004 358; Holmes 24; Printing and the Mind of Man 223; Rosove 77.A1. W. Strahan and T. Cadell unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

Cook James: King JamesABAA

A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE.

1784WRCAM43625Dublin 1784. Three volumes. 8xcviii421; 14549; 11559pp. plus frontispiece portrait eighteen folding maps and charts seven folding plates and folding table. Contemporary calf spines gilt leather labels. Extremities lightly worn slight wear to spine ends and hinges first volume expertly rebacked with original spine laid down. Minor occasional foxing. A very good set. First Dublin edition of the official account of Cook's third and final voyage including text on the exploration of Hawaii and the west coasts of America Canada and Alaska. The third voyage was undertaken to continue the British survey of the Pacific but most particularly to search for a northwest passage from the western side. Sailing in 1776 the expedition called at Kerguelen Island Tasmania New Zealand and the Cook Tonga and Society islands then sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. They then thoroughly explored and charted the Northwest Coast from the Bering Straits along the coast of Alaska and Canada as far south as present northern California. Returning to Hawaii in 1778 the expedition was at first received warmly; but after departing and being forced to return to repair a mast trouble developed which led to a tragic series of events in which the great navigator was killed. However the expedition pressed on under Clerke and then Gore and explored the coasts of Siberia and Kamchatka before returning to England in 1780. Forbes calls this work "arguably the single most important book on the Hawaiian islands." The Dublin edition was issued both with and without the plates; this copy is the issue with the plates which is considerably more desirable and difficult to come by. HOWES C729a. SABIN 16250. BEDDIE 1546. London edition: HILL 361. FORBES 62. LADA-MOCARSKI 37. REESE BEST OF THE WEST 14 ref. hardcover books

William Reese Company · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

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