Item #00523203 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 [8 volumes]. John Hawkesworth, James Cook.
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 [8 volumes]

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 [8 volumes]

Chez Nyon Chez Merigot, 1789. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Good / No Jacket. Item #00523203

Exceptionally scarce. Among other important contents, this work includes the account of Cook's first voyage: Volumes 3-8 contain 'Relation D'un voyage fait autour du monde, dans les annees 1768, 1769, 1770, & 1771, par... James Cook'. Beddie #671. 8 octavo volumes, complete as issued. Bound in period quarter calf over speckled calf with vellum tips, spines stamped in gilt (spines and boards rubbed and nicked, hinges splitting with old repairs - some with non-traditional materials - front inner hinge of volume 1 reinforced with light gray cloth tape; bookplates in each volume; occasional foxing). Aside from the occasional foxing, the text is clean and unmarked. There was no Atlas volume issued with this edition. Text in French. Traduction par Suard de : An Account of the voyages undertaken by order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere. Cf. Sabin 30940.

Price: $895.00

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