Complete Set Of Cooks Voyages An Account Of The Voyages Undertaken By The Order Of His Present

by James Cook John Hawkesworth

$40,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773, 1777, 1785. Second edition, First edition, Second edition. Second edition of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition, complete with the directions for placing the cuts and The Chart of the Strait of Magellan, which are sometimes lacking. This edition includes the Preface to the Second edition with Hawkesworth's famous rebuttal to Alexander Dalrymple. Three quarto

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