1st Edition of Cook's 1st Voyage - An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere - Cook, Carteret, Byron, Wallis - Hawkesworth - 1773

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: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth, Ll.D. in three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773

-1773

-Published in London by W Strahen and T Cadell

-True 1st Edition of Hawkesworth's edition of Cook's first voyage. The page numbering of the volumes distinguishes the two editions. In the first volume numbers skip from 139 to 360. Page numbering continues between the 2nd and 3d volumes, as these were originally planned to be bound as one. This numbering is corrected in the more common 2nd edition. 

[xii]; xxxvi; 1-139, 360-676; Vol. II pp. xv; [i]; 410, Vol. III pp. [vi]; 411 - 799

-Complete text and 51 (of 51) plates. Early 1st edition therefore strait of Magellen chart not called for (this chart is found in 2nd editions). I can include a separate copy of this map if desired.

-Original calf binding rebacked (retaining original labels) in very good condition

-Book plate of John Tremayne of Heligan House, Cornwall.

-Interior good, but some toning to pages and plates.

-Includes the important folding charts of New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia, and the Engravings of a Kangaroo and NZ Maori warrior.

These landmark voyages were the first to accurately map the pacific and included the first European mapping of Tahiti, New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia. Cook's voyage was a triumph of navigation and changed the face of the Pacific, paving the way for the further European exploration and the modern Pacific.