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1774 CAPTAIN COOK VOYAGE 7 volumes antique in FRENCH

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Seven volumes
Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majeste Britannique
et successivement executes par le Commodore Byron, le Capitaine Carteret, le Capitaine Wallis & le Capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour
By: COOK , Captain James , HAWKESWORTH John
Paris, 1774.
Incomplete set
Volume II - Volume III - Volume IV - Volume V - Volume VI - Volume VII - Volume VIII.
Volume II 347 pages
Volume III 447 pages
Volume IV 462 pages
Volume V 374 pages
Volume VI 312 pages
Volume VII 336 pages
Volume VIII 336 pages.
Size 5 1/4 by 8 1/8"
Original full calf binding spine with 5 raised bands
floral boxes, volume number and golden title piece.
Good interior condition. Worn bindings with some damages to the leather.
Text in French
No illustrations

Hawkesworth was commissioned by the British government to take back the original memoirs of Cook, Wallis, Byron who had been sent to the Admiralty. The collection contains Cook's first trip, then lieutenant on the Endeavor. The first volume reports the voyage of Carteret (Strait of Magellan, Queen Charlotte Island, New Britain) and Byron (Rio de Janeiro, Strait of Magellan, Batavia). The second volume contains the voyage of Captain Wallis (Patagonian Coast, Strait of Magellan, Tahiti Island, Tinian Island, Stay in Batavia, Cape Town) and the first voyage of Captain Cook (Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Tierra del Fuego , Tahiti - description, inhabitants, time). Volume III continues the narrative of Cook's voyage, with the description of some islands near Tahiti, New Zealand and circumnavigation of New Zealand, description of this island, language, agriculture .... The volume IV is still in charge of Cook's journey (New Galle, New Guinea, Savu Island, Batavia, Cape of Good Hope) The voyages all describe a crossing from the west and the Strait of Magellan, the passage through the Pacific Ocean, Asia and Oceania, then return to England.
"No matter how well known Cook's three voyages were, they can not make us forget those of Byron, Carteret, and Wallis, and we owe to these navigators clever observations of the straits of the South Sea, an exact description of the the land of the Patagonians, a luminous dissertation on this extraordinary [...] man's race, finally, the knowledge of the island of Taïti, which Wallis seems to have seen first, since he landed there in 1767, a year before the Bougainville's arrival on this island [...] But what gives the greatest value to these voyages is the circon-navigation of all New Holland paper ... "Boucher of the Richarderie (Universal Library of travels, 1808).

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