COOK, James. HAWKESWORTH, John. BANKS, Joseph. - Lot 22

COOK, James. HAWKESWORTH, John. BANKS, Joseph. Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante, pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis et le capitaine Cook... A Paris, chez Saillant, Panckoucke, 1774. 2 volumes in-4 (25.5 x 19 cm), (out of IV vols.). Contemporary marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated, fawn title page and gilded tomaison, gilded fleur-de-lys on the caissons, gilded arms in the center of the boards, red edges (wormholes on the upper cover of volume II, rubbing and spotting on the boards, oxidized leaves including the map of the Strait of Magellan in t.1 with a restoration at a fold, but the rest of the plates remain fresh). French first edition. A copy bearing the arms of a Bourbon, subsequently stamped on a binding whose arms had previously been scratched off. Tome I. Voy. de Captain Byron Commandant le Vaisseau du roi le Dauphin / Voy. de Philippe Carteret, Écuyer, Commandant de Swallow Sloup de sa majesté britannique... [5] ff. (fx. title, title notice to binders, pl. expl., notes), XVI-XXXII-388 pp. 15 plates (of 16, without plate 6) Volume II. Voy. de Samuel Wallis / Jacques Cook Commandant le Vaisseau du roi l'Endeavour. [3] ff. (title fx., title, pl. expl.), 536 pp. 13 plates (of 16, without pl. 1, 2 and 11).