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COOK, James, Captain. [Second voyage]. COOK, James. Voyage dans l'hemisphére 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: Hotel de Thou, 1778.
5 volumes, 4o (251 x 196 mm). Half-titles, 66 engraved charts and plates (after William Hodges), most folding (numbered 1-65 and 10 bis). Contemporary French mottled calf gilt (spines lightly dried, extremities worn).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. 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. (5)
5 volumes, 4
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. 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. (5)
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