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COOK, JAMES. Atlas volume from: Voyage dans l`hémisphère austral et autour du monde... Traduit de l'Anglois... Paris 1778. Only atlas volume with 65 plates.
Atlas in 4to (c. 265x210 mm). 1 engraved portrait of the author, 64 mostly folding engraved plates and maps, mostly double page, including the large folding map (545x560 mm) titled Carte de l'Hemisphere austral, (all, some folds, a few partly loose, some soiling and dampstaining (mostly in the beginning), minor spotting, some browning mostly to margins, a few minor tears to margins, plate 47 with notes in upper margin and partly loose,
Contemporary half calf, partly worn and rubbed, with damages to spine and corner, covers partly slightly warped, title label in French, red speckled edges. Bookplate. Note in pencil on inside of cover that the volume was bought at Pollack in 1980.

The atlas volume of the first French edition of Cook's second voyage. It includes the first recorded crossing of the Antarctic Circle and the discoveries of Easter Island, the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. The beautiful plates of views and inhabitants after drawings by William Hodges. The portrait of Cook is engraved by Bartolozzi.
James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and famous explorer. His achievements in mapping the Pacific, New Zealand and Australia radically changed western perceptions of world geography. Amongst others he discovered and charted New Zeeland and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia and made his first voyage around the world in 1768-71 in the ship Endeavour. In the second voyage 1772-75 he looked for the southern continent in the ships Resolution and Adventure. In his third and last voyage in the years 1776-80 aboard the ships Resolution and Discovery, he was trying to find the North-West Passage, but instead found and explored Hawaii. The journey was completed without him as he was killed in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, 1779.
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Auktionsnummer:

6139

Datum:

2015-12-15