COOK, Captain James

Voyage dans l'Hemisphere Austral, et autour du Monde...

      Hotel de Thou [and Barrois aine] Paris, 1778.. Six volumes, octavo, with a quarto atlas volume containing 66 engraved maps, portraits, and plates, mostly folding; in fine condition in contemporary mottled French calf, the atlas in quarter calf and marbled boards, spines ornately gilt in compartments, red & gilt labels, red edges.. A handsome set of the first French appearance of Cook's great second voyage, originally written and prepared for publication by Cook himself. For this French version, translated by Suard, the narrative account by Forster has been incorporated throughout (where such sections occur they are identified as the alternative account by being in quotation marks). Although the publisher of the work was given as "Hotel de Thou" in all the volumes, in this copy the first volume has an original cancel imprint pasted at the foot of the title-page of the bookseller "Barrois, aine". This is one of two editions published in the same year: the other, also with the imprint of "Hotel de Thou", appeared as five volumes. Beddie, 1224.