Complete set of first editions of the three voyages of Captain Cook, including the rare issue of the second voyage with the plates in a separate atlas

by Captain James Cook

$50,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First editions. Collations as below. 10 vols. 4to text and folio atlases. Item #367088 FIRST VOYAGE – HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty 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. 51 engraved

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