[Cook, James] Hawkesworth, John

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Description

An Account of the Voyages.... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773
paper, ink, leather

3 volumes, 4to (295 x 230mm). 51 maps and plates; some light spotting and minor offsetting, mostly to plates, lacks Magellan chart. Contemporary calf; rebacked, corners restored.

Literature

Hill 783

Catalogue Note

Second edition of Cook's first voyage, the preferred edition according to Hill.