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THE FIRST VOYAGE (COOK, JAMES.) Hawkesworth, John. An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. 52 engraved maps
THE FIRST VOYAGE (COOK, JAMES.) Hawkesworth, John. An Account of the Voyages... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere. 52 engraved maps and plates. 3 volumes. 4to, 19th century 1/2 dyed calf, worn at extremities, a few joints partially split, volume one rebacked and recased; two hinges cracked; scattered minor foxing and offsetting to the plates, minor soiling and toning to the text. London, 1773
- Notes: first edition of cook's first voyage, without Hawkesworth's reply and with the second and third volumes continuously paginated. "The first voyage under the not-yet-famous Captain Cook's command, on the Endeavor, was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition was to sail to Tahiti in order to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun, to determine the earth's distance from the sun, and also to carry on the geographical discovery that John Byron had started"--Hill 782.
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