Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Hawkesworth (John) An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..., 3 vol., first edition, 51 engraved maps and plates only (of 52, lacking one from vol.2), most folding, including map of 'Straights of Magellan' but no list of plates (as often), map of 'Straights of Magellan' with a couple of short tears at edges but no loss, folding plate of War Canoe in vol.3 with patch of slight surface damage to sky, some light spotting or soiling, mostly marginal to plates, tear to lower margin of 5G3 in vol.3, contemporary calf, spines ruled in gilt with red and green morocco labels, rubbed, a few worn or wormed patches, spines a little worn at foot, [Mitchell Library Cook 648; Sabin 30934], 4to, for W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1773.
Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James) [First Voyage].- Hawkesworth (John) An Account of the Voyages...for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere..., 3 vol., first edition, 51 engraved maps and plates only (of 52, lacking one from vol.2), most folding, including map of 'Straights of Magellan' but no list of plates (as often), map of 'Straights of Magellan' with a couple of short tears at edges but no loss, folding plate of War Canoe in vol.3 with patch of slight surface damage to sky, some light spotting or soiling, mostly marginal to plates, tear to lower margin of 5G3 in vol.3, contemporary calf, spines ruled in gilt with red and green morocco labels, rubbed, a few worn or wormed patches, spines a little worn at foot, [Mitchell Library Cook 648; Sabin 30934], 4to, for W.Strahan and T.Cadell, 1773.
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