Lot 172

Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Hawkesworth (John) An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..., 3 vol., second edition, for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773. 

Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000

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Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Hawkesworth (John) An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..., 3 vol., second edition, 52 engraved maps and plates, including map of 'Straights of Magellan', many folding or double-page, vol. 1 Preface to Second Edition bound at end of preliminaries, vol. 2 View of Terra del Fuego bound in vol. 1 with couple short tears and laid down, vol. 1 map at p.357 with tiny hole, few very short tears into plates without loss, vol. 1 very occasional small water-staining to foot, mainly to final few ff., some offsetting, some spotting and light browning, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to titles, modern library cloth, [Hill 783; cf. Sabin 30934], 4to, for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773.

⁂ Second edition of the official account of Cook's first voyage, published in same year as the first but distinguishable in having a new preface by Hawkesworth and vol. 2 & 3 separately paginated.

Description

Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Hawkesworth (John) An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..., 3 vol., second edition, 52 engraved maps and plates, including map of 'Straights of Magellan', many folding or double-page, vol. 1 Preface to Second Edition bound at end of preliminaries, vol. 2 View of Terra del Fuego bound in vol. 1 with couple short tears and laid down, vol. 1 map at p.357 with tiny hole, few very short tears into plates without loss, vol. 1 very occasional small water-staining to foot, mainly to final few ff., some offsetting, some spotting and light browning, ex-library copies with small ink-stamp to titles, modern library cloth, [Hill 783; cf. Sabin 30934], 4to, for W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773.

⁂ Second edition of the official account of Cook's first voyage, published in same year as the first but distinguishable in having a new preface by Hawkesworth and vol. 2 & 3 separately paginated.

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