John Hawkesworth
Cook's First Voyage
W. Strahan
1773
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Finely bound second-edition volumes 1 and 3 of Hawkesworth's account of Cook.
- Sold as a set of 2.
- John Hawkesworth (English).
- An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of his Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook.
- London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1773.
- Quarto.
- Bound in contemporary calf, spine with gilt lettering and tooling.
Condition Report
GoodLater rebacking with new spine.
Some light wear and rubbing to bindings.
Bookplate to front pastedowns.
Volume three with water stains to upper gutter on pages 49–76 and upper and lower gutter from page 360–end.
Some folding plates with small tears near gutter.
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