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LOT 1155
SOLD €1300,00

[Travels] J. Hawkesworth. Cartes et figures des voyages entrepris par les Anglois

Pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère médidional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook, dans les vaissaux le Dauphin, Le Swallow & l'Endeavour: Rédigés d'après les journaux tenus par les commandans & les papier de M. Banks. Par. J. Hawkesworh (...).Paris, J.G. Merigot, 1794, letterpress title-p., followed by a total of 52 plates, incl. 29 maps of which 27 double-p. or (large) fold. and 23 plates and views of which 11 double-p., late 19th cent. half calf in antique style.

The atlas only, without the text volumes. Occ. dustsoiled or foxed in margins; a few maps w. sm. tear near spine; map of the coast of New Holland sl. browned; one map sl. frayed in lower margin. The second edition (the original edition appeared in 1774). Contains a.o. fine (large) maps of the Pacific, the Strait of Magellan, the Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte) Islands, Tahiti, the Society Islands, New Zealand and the coast of Australia.

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