COOK, JAMES - FIRST VOYAGE - HAWKESWORTH, JEAN (EDT.).
Voyages autour du Monde entrepris par Ordre de sa Majesté Britannique, actuellement regnante, Pour faire des Découvertes dans L'Hémisphère Austral. Exécutés successivement par le Chef d'Escadre Byron, les Capitaines Wallis, Carteret & Cook, dans les Vaisseaux Le Dauphin, L'Hirondelle & L'Endeavour. Redigés par Jean Hawkesworth sur les Journaux tenus par les divers Commandans, & d'apres les papiere de Mr. Joseph Banks...Traduit de L'Anglois (Par Suard). 4 vols. Amsterdam, Rotterdam, E. van Harrevelt, Henry Beman, 1774.
4to. Bound in 4 cont. full mottled calf. 6 raised bands, gilt titlelabels. Backs a little rubbed, some cracking to leather along hinges, but covers not detached. Corners bumped. Ocasionally somewhat brownspotted, a few tears in plates (no loss). A few corners dampstained. With all 4 halftitles. (8),XXXII,388 - (6),536 - (6),394 - VIII,367,(3) pp. and 52 engraved plates, mostly large and folded, among these are 28 folded maps. (all).
¶ First French edition of Cooke's first travel, a title-issue identical with the Paris-edition from the same year, only with a different titlepage and a printed Privilege in Dutch for the Dutch publisher. It is the 4to-edition, not one of the 8vo -editions published the same year. - Sabin 30941.
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