A COMPLETE SET OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF COOK'S THREE VOYAGES.
Eight text volumes and an atlas. Comprising: 1. Hawkesworth (John) 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 Carteret, Captain Wallis, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. In three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Pp. [xii]+xxxvi+[viii](Preface to the Second Edition)+456+xiv+410+396(last blank), 52 plates (including maps and charts), several folding or double page, tables; med. 4to; minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner of pages 37/8 and 303/4 in Volume I, the tip torn from bottom fore-corner pages 217/8 in Volume III, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1773. Second edition. Beddie 650; Hill 783. The second edition is considered the best, as it contains in the Preface Hawkesworth's reply to the pamphlet A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth occasioned by some groundless and illiberal imputations in his account of the late voyages to the South Seas. 2. A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD. Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 . . . In which is included Captain Furneaux's Narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships. In two volumes. Illustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits of persons and views of places, drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges, and engraved by the most eminent masters. Pp. xl+378+[viii]+[396](including an unpaginated title page to A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners . . . by Sir John Pringle), 64 engraved plates (including a frontispiece portrait of Cook by William Hodges, plus maps and charts), many folding, 2 with original tissue guards, all but a couple with publisher's imprint, a few small text figures, several tables (1 folding), Vocabulary of the language of the Society Islands; med. 4to; light damp stains to corners of frontispiece portrait and tiny hole affecting last numeral of page number on pages xxxix/xl in Volume I, a couple of tiny wormholes to margins of last few leaves in Volume II, with pages 213/4 reinserted onto stub, minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner pages 299/300 & 357/8, and bottom fore-corner torn from pages 231/2 (no text loss) in same volume, most of the plates faintly offset, a couple of mainly small closed marginal tears, occasional browning, slight foxing and soiling; printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1779. Third edition. Beddie 1226. 3. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. In three volumes [plus Atlas]. Volumes I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S.; Volume III by Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Pp. [x]+xcvi+422(last blank)+[xiv]+548+[xiv]+556, 87 engraved plates (including maps or charts, several folding or double page, 62 of the plates being in the atlas volume), title page vignette each volume, folding table in Volume III, appendices; small closed tear to fore-edge margin pages 293/4 Volume I, the plates in text volumes lightly offset, tiny hole to fore-edge margin pages 247-250 Volume II, light water stain to margins of most of the plates, and neat repair to closed tears to two plates, in the atlas volume, occasional slight creasing, a little mainly light foxing; printed for G. Nicol and T. Caddell, London, 1785. Second edition. Beddie 1552. *Nine volumes, including atlas. Seven of the med. 4to text volumes are uniformly bound in nineteenth century calf, the boards with gilt edges, double gilt rule surrounding a decorative blind border, and gilt dentelles. The edges of the leaves in the first and third voyage volumes are marbled. Volume III of the Hawkesworth volumes is in a very similar binding, but with a single gilt rule border, no blind border, and slightly different gilt edge decorations to the boards. All text volumes are neatly rebacked, with later (but not recent) calf spines lettered and decorated in gilt, and later endpapers. The boards are a trifle marked and rubbed, with two tiny surface holes to upper board of Volume II of the Second Voyage; the spines are lightly rubbed. The impl. folio atlas is bound in twentieth century half calf and brown cloth boards, which are slightly scuffed and flecked. Item #166239
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