254 - [Americana]. [COOK. HAWKESWORTH. BANKS].

[Americana]. [COOK. HAWKESWORTH. BANKS]. Account of the voyages undertaken by order of His Britannic Majesty, the current monarch, to make discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere [...] Paris: Saillant and Nyon; Panckoucke, 1774. 4 volumes, in-4 (25.5 x 19 cm). Contemporary marbled fawn calfskin, ribbed spine, red title labels and fawn volume numbers, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, marbled edges (binding worn with worn cap bands and a few losses on the spine, a few loose quires, slight foxing, detachment without loss on the map of the Strait of Magellan in vol. 1 and maps nos. 1 and 7 (New Zealand) in vol. 3, small loss in the upper margin of plate 8 in vol. 2). Full title: Account of the voyages undertaken by order of His Britannic Majesty, currently reigning, to make discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively carried out by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis, and Captain Cook aboard the ships Dauphin, Swallow, and Endeavor: Compiled from the logs kept by the various commanders and the papers of Mr. Banks. First French edition, translated from the English by Suard. It brings together accounts of British voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, including the famous first voyage undertaken under the command of James Cook, written from his notes by John Hawkesworth. The illustrations consist of 52 black-and-white copperplate engravings, most of which are fold-out plates. They include numerous maps, such as the important map of the South Sea, the Strait of Magellan, Hawkins’s Maidenland or Virgin Land, the Pitcairn and Queen Charlotte Islands, and Cape Carteret. They also feature numerous coastal views, depictions of flora and fauna, as well as the inhabitants of Tahiti and other islands. Chadenat, 6104. Sabin, 30940.