[Australia, Australasia, Captain Cook, Southern Hemisphere]

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COOK'S FIRST AND SECOND VOYAGES

[COOK, Captain James]. HAWKESWORTH, John.

Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa majeste Britannique, Et successivement executes par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les Vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour; Traduite de L'Anglois. Tome Premier [-Huitieme]

A Paris. Chez Nyon, l'aine...Merigot, le jeune, 1789.

8vo. Eight volumes. 48, 219, [1]; [4], 243, [1]; 316; [4], 320; [4], 259, [1]; 223, [1]; 131 [i.e. 231], [1]; 252pp. With half-title to each volume. [Bound uniformly with:] Voyage dans l'hemisphere Austral, et autour du monde, Fait sur les vaisseaux de roi l'Aventure & la Resolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775; ecrit par Jacques Cook, Commandant de la Resolution; dans lequel on a infere la relation du Capitaine Furneaux, & celle de MM. Forster. Traduit de l'Anglois.... A Paris. Chez J.G. Merigot, le jeune..., 1792. Six volumes. [4], [i]-xl, 375, [1]; 397, [1]; 380; 376; [4], 320; 311pp, [1]. With three half titles, as issued, and a single table opposite p.157, Vol VI. Without the atlas volume. Finely bound in uniform mottled French calf-backed marbled boards, with vellum tips, contrasting red and green morocco title labels, spines richly gilt in scalloppine design. Slightly rubbed, with some chips to extremities of spines. Very occasionally cracking to joints, single wormhole to upper joint Vol III, 2nd work. The odd rust-hole or tear to text, all without loss of sense. Occasional light marking or staining. With ink inscriptions of John Lukis, (with one mention of Guernsey), to titles, thus presumably from the library of Channel Islands based mining engineer John Walter Lukis (1816-1894). Small shelf-mark label of Bibliotheque Rohault-Fleury to FEP of Vol. V of the second work, neatly removed from other volumes.

Two early French editions of Cook's voyages, uniformly bound and with the same Channel Islands ownership inscriptions. The first is the 8vo edition of John Hawkesworth's accounts of the voyages of Byron, Carteret, Wallis and Cook. First published in English 1773, it was swiftly translated into French for a quarto edition of 1774, and includes a detailed account of the Endeavour's visit to Tahiti, New Zealand and the charting of the coast of New South Wales. The second work is a late eighteenth-century edition of Cook's account of his second voyage (first published in English during 1777, and translated into French for an edition of 1778), crossing the Antarctic circle and taking the Resolution and Adventure on the most southerly circumnavigation then acheived, with the express intention of discovering and mapping the hypothetical Terra Australis, believed to be further South than New South Wales. Please note that the Atlas volume issued to accompany the second work is not in this set.

1st work: Sabin 69276.

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