COOK, James - HAWKESWORTH, John. Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté britannique [...] pour faire des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional [...].
Paris, Saillant et Nyon and Panckoucke, 1774. 4 Volumes
Together with:
Voyage dans l'hémisphère austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux du Roi, L'Aventure, & la Révolution [...].
Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1778. 5 Volumes
Together with:
Troisième voyage de Cook, ou Voyage à l'océan Pacifique.
Parisi, Hôtel de Thou, 1785. 4 Volumes.
Together with:
KIPPIS, Andrew. Vie du capitaine Cook, traduite de l'anglois du docteur Kippis, membre de la Société Royale de Londres. Par m. Castera
Paris, Rue des Poitevins, Hötel de Thou, 1789
14 Volumes in 4to large. 250x192 mm. Contemporary binding in marbled leather, gilt rules frame on covers, gilt ornaments and gilt title on red morocco labels on spines, marbled insidecovers, marbled edges. Each volume with its own Titlepage and Halftitle. Total of 223 copper-engraved plates o.t.
Very rare 4to first French edition with the complete collection of Cook's voyages. The most important account of circumnavigation in the 18th century, beautifully illustrated. The work contains a total of 223 copper-engraved Tables depicting maps, views, fauna, flora, genre scenes, costumes, portraits of native characters, antiquities, weapons: with Cook's Portrait and his death in the large folded frontispiece, which is often missing; also, the large map depicting the ‘Southern Hemisphere’, the planisphere depicting all Cook's discoveries, 2 language plates, a map depicting the ‘South Sea’ and the ‘Table de comparaison’.
The official account of Captain Cook's first voyage of circumnavigation of the United Kingdom is contained in the collection of accounts of British expeditions written by John Hawkesworth and translated by J.-B. Suard and occupies the first four volumes.
The second voyage, also translated by Suard, occupies the next four volumes, followed in a fifth volume by J. R. Forster's account of the expedition.
Cook's last voyage, translated and published by J.-N. Demeunier, comprises four volumes: the monumental third voyage was organized to search for the Northwest Passage and bring the islander Omai back to Tahiti. After stopping at the Kerguelen Islands, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Cook Island, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook called the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the U.S. west coast from northern California across the Bering Strait to as far north as 70 degrees latitude. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in a nasty skirmish with the natives.
the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook called the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the U.S. west coast from northern California across the Bering Strait to as far north as 70 degrees latitude.
He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in a nasty skirmish with the natives.
The plate of Cook's Death, not found in all copies, is present here bound as the frontispiece of the first volume.
Finally, there is added the first French edition, translated by J.-H. Castera, of Andrew Kippis's biography of Cook. This first biography of James Cook, the only one for forty years, was published in England in 1788. It covers Cook's entire life, from his birth in 1728 until his death in February 1779.
Sabin 30940, 16249, 16261, 37955, 25141; Beddie 660 e 1556; Cox I, 19; Henze I, 643.
Per Kippis: Chadenat 3262 e 5077.