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COOK (Captain James), HAWKESWORTH (John).
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COOK (Captain James), HAWKESWORTH (John). Complete collection of Cook's three voyages in the original French edition and uniform contemporary binding. 13 volumes in-4 bound in marbled calf, spines decorated with gilt fleurons, triple fillet on the covers, roulette on the edges, marbled edges. PREMIER VOYAGE: Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique pour faire des Découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional, et successivement exécutés par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les Vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour: rédigée d'après les Journaux tenus par les différents Commandants & les Papiers de M. Banks, par J. Hawkesworth. Paris, Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774-1778. 4 volumes, 52 plates (maps, views, scenes...). First edition of the French translation. Upper head of the first volume damaged, leather missing from 4 corners, from the second cover of volume 3 and from a section of volume 4, rare foxing in volume 2, traces of moisture in the upper margin of the first leaves of volume 3. - DEUXIÈME VOYAGE: Voyage dans l'hémisphère austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux de roi, l'Aventure & la Résolution en 1772, 1773, 1774 et 1775. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 5 volumes, 65/66 engraved plates (frontispiece portrait (pl.1), maps, views, portraits of natives, arms..., plate 10 bis is present but plate n°19 is missing) for the 4 volumes of the voyage, volume 5 by M. Forster "Observations faites pendant le second voyage de M. Cook dans l'hémisphère austral et autour du monde sur la géographie, l'histoire naturelle et la philosophie morale", includes 1 table and 1 map. First French edition of Cook's second voyage, translated by Suard. A very fine copy despite the following defects: 3 corners with leather missing, small tear to a lower headpiece, spotting to volume 5, small wormholes in the margin of volume 5 at the end of the volume, worm gallery in the margin of the first 6 leaves of volume 2, dampstaining at the head of volume 4 mainly affecting the plates and a few leaves, as is often the case, the 2 leaves of advice to the binder are missing. - TROISIÈME VOYAGE: Cook's third voyage, or voyage to the Pacific Ocean, ordered by the King of England to make discoveries in the northern hemisphere...Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785. 4 volumes, frontispiece (death of Captain Cook) and 87 plates (maps, scenes, portraits...), 1 folding table (Appendix n°2). First edition of the French translation, a complete copy including the 2 notices to the binder. Minor damage to 2 upper headpieces, leather missing from upper cut and first cover of volume 1 and from lower cut of volume 3, covers slightly rubbed, spotting on frontispiece and some plates of volume 1 and slightly browned quires, rare brown spots in volume 3. A very good copy. A very fine set.
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