Beschreibung:

Cook, Captain James. [THE THREE VOYAGES] Hawkesworth, John. An Account of the Voyages… 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. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, second edition, 3 volumes, 52 engraved plates, maps and charts, mostly double-page or folding, directions to the binder and errata, chart of the Society Islands sliced by binder (cut section loosely inserted) with slight loss of text, occasional spotting, some light offsetting, a few imprints shaved Cook, Captain 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. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777, second edition, 2 volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece, 63 engraved plates, maps and charts, many folding, folding letterpress table, gathering O misbound, a few imprints shaved Cook, Captain James and Captain James King A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. London: W. and A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784, first edition, 3 volumes of text and atlas volume of plates, together 4 volumes, 87 engraved plates, maps and charts (several folding; 63 in atlas volume; 24 in text volumes), folding letterpress table, occasional light browning or offsetting together 9 volumes, 4to (286 x 224mm.) and atlas volume folio (575 x 415mm.), near uniform contemporary polished speckled calf, spines richly tooled in gilt, atlas in nineteenth-century black calf-backed cloth, a few joints split or splitting, joints rubbed, binding of atlas rubbed