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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) and JOHN HAWKESWORTH (1715?-1773)
Relation des Voyages... exécutés par... Byron... Carteret... Wallis... Cook. Translated by J.B.A.Suard. Paris: J.G.Clousier for Saillant & Nyon and Panckoucke, 1774.
4 volumes, 4° (253 x 200mm). 51 engraved plates and plans only (of 52, 39 folding or double-page), extra-illustrated with a loosely inserted later large folding map of the southern hemisphere showing the tracks of various voyagers. (Some browning.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, g.e. (worn), the four volumes in two modern slip-cases. Provenance: Henry R.Maurer (bookplate). Mitchell 659. (4)
Relation des Voyages... exécutés par... Byron... Carteret... Wallis... Cook. Translated by J.B.A.Suard. Paris: J.G.Clousier for Saillant & Nyon and Panckoucke, 1774.
4 volumes, 4° (253 x 200mm). 51 engraved plates and plans only (of 52, 39 folding or double-page), extra-illustrated with a loosely inserted later large folding map of the southern hemisphere showing the tracks of various voyagers. (Some browning.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, g.e. (worn), the four volumes in two modern slip-cases. Provenance: Henry R.Maurer (bookplate). Mitchell 659. (4)