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HAWKESWORTH, John (editor). An Account of the Voyages ... 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 ... and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. 3 volumes, 4°, 52 engraved plates, maps and charts, most folding (3 torn without loss, occasional light spotting and soiling mainly to text in vol. III), contemporary calf (rubbed and scuffed, joints splitting, corners bumped), spines with red morocco lettering pieces. FIRST EDITION. Holmes 5; Mitchell Library 648. (3)