[Cook] Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur [Andrew] Kippis

(by J.H. Castera). Paris, Rue des Poitevins, Hôtel de Thou, 1789, XXXII,546(2) p., with two EXTRA engr. portraits of James Cook (1x bound, 1x inserted loose), contemporary marbled gilt calfskin, 4to.

Good copy with minimal worming in blank margin, binding rubbed on spine and edges and corners of casings. The 4to edition, which appeared in the same year and from the same editor as the (apparently more current) 8vo edition in two volumes, which does mention the translator on the title page.