Hawkesworth, John

AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGES UNDERTAKEN BY THE ORDER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, AND SUCCESSIVELY PERFORMED BY COMMODORE BYRON, CAPTAIN WALLIS, CAPTAIN CARTERET, AND CAPTAIN COOK, IN THE DOLPHIN, THE SWALLOW, AND THE ENDEAVOUR [Three Volumes]

London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. First Edition. Quartos, Three Volumes. In Very Good condition. Rebound in modern quarter leather and brown cloth boards. Spines bear red labels with gilt lettering. Age toning as expected. With 30/42 plates and maps.

Volume I: [10], i-xxxvi, [3], 1-139 (page 139 is numbered 139-360), 361-676 pages. Lacks chart at title page (bound in Volume II), Chart of the Strait of Magellan (as is usual), Cut 23 at page 27, and Cut 21 at page 443. Signs of repair to leaf Lll2. Tearing to fore edge of leaf 4B2.

Volume II: xv, 410 pages. Contains Chart of part of the South Seas (meant for Volume I) at title page. Lacks Cut 1 at page 39, Cut 4 at page 184, Cut 5 at page 234, Cut 6 at page 252, and Cut 3 at page 258. Slicing to gutters from page 251 to 258.

Volume III: [4], 411-799 pages. Lacks Cut 13 at page 453, the Chart of New South Wales at page 481, and Cut 20 at page 561.

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NOTES

James Cook led three voyages through Oceania from 1768-1780, with the first voyage lasting from 1768 to 1771. The aims of this first expedition were twofold, being to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun, and to seek evidence of the then unknown but hypothesized Terra Australis Incognita. The expedition was the second European voyage to reach New Zealand (and the first in 127 years) and the first known Europeans to reach the east coast of Australia.

The first volume details John Byron's account of the 1764–1766 voyage of HMS Dolphin, Samuel Wallis' journal of the 1766–1768 voyage of the same ship that included the first European encounter with Tahiti, and Philip Carteret's 1766–1769 circumnavigation on HMS Swallow, where some islands including Pitcairn Island were found. The second and third volume concern the first voyage of James Cook, The second volume focuses largely on Tahiti and the transit of Venus. The third volume focuses on New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.