COOK, James, Captain (1728-1779). The three voyages, first editions in French. Paris, 1774-1785. 14 vols. 4o (255 x 200 mm). (Text leaves occassionally browned, some minor spotting to a few plates.) Near-uniform contemporary French mottled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, red and olive gilt-lettered spine labels (joints cracked, extremities worn).

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COOK, James, Captain (1728-1779). The three voyages, first editions in French. Paris, 1774-1785. 14 vols. 4o (255 x 200 mm). (Text leaves occassionally browned, some minor spotting to a few plates.) Near-uniform contemporary French mottled calf gilt, spines in six compartments, red and olive gilt-lettered spine labels (joints cracked, extremities worn).

[First voyage]. HAWKESWORTH, John (1715?-1773). Relation des voyages... pour faire des dcouverts dans l'hemisphre meridional, et successivement executs par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavor... Traduite de l'anglois [by J.B.A. Suard]. Paris: Saillant et Nyon and Panckoucke, 1774. 4 vols. Half-titles, 52 engraved charts and plates, most folding (plate nos. 1 and 2 in vol. 1 and 3 and 7 in vol. 3 with slight tears). BCJC 659; Sabin 30940.

[Second voyage]. COOK, James. Voyage dans l'hemisphre austral et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux de roi, l'Aventure, & la Resolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774, & 1775... Traduit de l'anglois [by Suard]. Paris: Htel de Thou, 1778. 5 vols. Half-titles, 66 engraved chart and plates (after William Hodges), most folding (numbered 1-65 and 10 bis). The fifth volume, Observations by Johann Reinhold Forster, was published separately in the English edition and forms an appendix to vols. 1-4. BCJC 1223; Sabin 16249.

[Third voyage]. COOK, James. Troisieme voyage de Cook, ou voyage a l'ocan Pacifique... pour faire des dcouvertes dans l'hemisphre nord, pour dterminer la position & l'tendue de la cte ouest de l'Amerique Septentrionale, sa distance de l'Asie, & rsoudre la question du passage au nord. Excut sous la direction des Capitaines Cook, Clerke & Gore, sur les vaisseaux la Rsolution & la Dcouverte, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduit de l'anglois par M.D[emeunier]. Paris: Htel de Thou, 1785. 5 vols. (Atlas of plates is vol. 5.) Half-titles in vols. 1-4, 88 engraved maps, charts and plates, most folding, including the un-numbered "Mort du Capitaine Cook" plate. BCJC 1556; Sabin 16261 (mistakenly referring to the book as an 8o). (14)

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