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COOK ( Captain James) - HAWKESWORTH (John): AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES... for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere [First Voyage], London, W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1773, second edition, 3 vols., 4to (285 x 225mm.), 51 engraved plates, maps and charts only (of 52), many folding, the general map inserted in pocket at back of vol.I, (very occasional light spotting). Mitchell 650. A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD [Second Voyage], London, W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1777, second edition, 2 vols., 4to (285 x 225mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece and 63 plates, maps and charts, many folding (small repaired tears to 2 maps, 2 plates shaved). Mitchell 1217. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Undertaken... for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere [Third Voyage], London, H.Hughs for G.Nicol and T.Cadell, 1785, 'second edition', 3 vols. only (lacking the atlas vol.), 4to (285 x 225mm.), engraved title vignettes, 24 charts and outline views of islands (3 shaved, some slight offsetting of plates onto text). Mitchell 1552. Together 8 vols. UNIFORMLY BOUND IN EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY DICED RUSSIA, COVERS WITH ELABORATELY BLIND-TOOLED CATHEDRAL-STYLE DECORATION ENCLOSING THE ARMS OF THE SIXTH EARL OF HARBOROUGH, the spines with similar decoration in gilt and blind, g.e. (joints very slightly rubbed). A VERY FINE SET. As in the early issue of the First Voyage this set does not contain the chart of the straits of Magellan in vol.I; sold not subject to return. (8)