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COOK (JAMES) HAWKESWORTH (JOHN)
An Account of the Voyages Undertaken... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, W. Strahan, and T. Cadell (9)

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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COOK (JAMES)

HAWKESWORTH (JOHN) An Account of the Voyages Undertaken... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, 51 maps and plates (without the chart of the straits of Magellan, which is sometimes present), occasional light offsetting to plates, 1773--COOK (JAMES) 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, 2 vol., third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Basire after W. Hodges, 63 engraved charts, maps and plates, light browning to plates, the New Hebrides double-page plates slightly trimmed, Southern Hemisphere chart with small split near centre without loss, 1779--COOK (JAMES) and JAMES KING. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken... for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under 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, 4 vol. including Atlas, text volumes with 24 charts and plates, atlas with 2 folding maps and 63 plates (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the 'Death of Captain Cook' plate and an additional portrait of Omai), large map with split at platemark and associated tear, both neatly repaired without loss, Death of Cook plate trimmed to imprint and inlaid, 1785; together 3 works in 9 vol., near-uniform early twentieth century half morocco gilt, t.e.g., light rubbing [Beddie 648, 1216, 1543; Forbes 62; Hill 782, 358, 361; Lada-Morcarski 37; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250], 4to (295 x 230mm.) and folio (570 x 420mm.), W. Strahan, and T. Cadell (9)

Footnotes

A complete set of the official accounts of Cook's voyages, including the Atlas and the 'Death of Cook' plate. During the three landmark voyages, the explorer observed the transit of Venus at Tahiti, spent six months on the coast of New Zealand (which was circumnavigated and charted for the first time), charted the east coast of Australia, named New South Wales and Botany Bay, disproved the existence of a further southern continent, and made numerous further discoveries in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and South Georgia. The final voyage was directed principally towards the search for a Northwest Passage from the Pacific, culminating in Cook's death in the Hawaiian Islands.

Provenance: James Coutts Crawford (1817-1899, settler and politician in New Zealand), bookplate; later family ownership inscriptions.

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