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Maître Stéphane PRENVEILLE
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[VOYAGE] - [COOK (James)] - HAWKESWORTH (John) - An Account …
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[VOYAGE] - [COOK (James)] - HAWKESWORTH (John) - An Account …
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Estimate €700 - €900
Voluntary lot
Description
[VOYAGE] - [COOK (James)] - HAWKESWORTH (John) - An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by Order of His Britannic Majesty, the Present Reigning Monarch; to make discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively carried out by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook, aboard the ships the Dauphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour […] - Paris; Saillant and Nyon, Panckouke, 1774 – 4 volumes, In-4° – 1 marginal brown stain on the first 12 leaves of Volume III - Complete with all 52 maps, views and plates, mostly fold-out, engraved by Benard, Duret, Godefroy, de Launay, … - Contemporary marbled havana calf binding (a few minor scratches and scuffs on the covers) - Triple fillet moulding on the covers - Decorated raised spine - Bordeaux morocco title labels, havana morocco volume number labels - Marbled edges - A very fine first edition copy of the French translation of this compilation of travel accounts written by Hawkesworth based on the notes of Byron, Carteret, Wallis and Captain Cook’s journal. The first French account of Cook’s great circumnavigation, offering the European public a unique insight into the Pacific, its islands and their inhabitants.
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Antique and modern books and documents
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Auction time
10/02/2026 at 9:30 AM
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