| Author |
Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773 (author.) |
| Title |
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 ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known. |
| Edition |
[1st edition] |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
London : printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. |
| Description |
3 volumes : illustrations, charts, maps (some folded) ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Vol. I: [12], xxxvi, [4], [1]-138, 139/360, [1, blank], [2], [363]-676 pp. (140-359 omitted in numbering), 20 plates (17 folding; maps, charts, views). |
| Vol. II: xv [1], 410 pp., 22 plates (19 folding; maps, charts, scenes, views, fauna, antiquities, costume). |
| Vol. III: [6], [411]-799 [1, blank], 9 plates (6 folding; figures, antiquities, scenes, views, maps,charts, fauna). |
| Number of plates: 51 copper-engraved plates (maps,charts, views, etc.) |
| First edition of the first official account of Cook’s first voyage, commissioned by the British Admiralty. |
| Exhibitions note |
Exhibited: Rare Collection (vols 1-3): "Endeavour Voyage: The Untold Stories of Cook and the First Australians," National Museum of Australia, 2 June 2020 to 26 April 2021. |
| Local note |
Bound without the “Chart of the Streight of Magellan” (not present in this copy but added to later editions) |
| Some offsetting of plates, a few tears in leaves expertly mended. |
| With printed bookplate of Thomas Ballantyne Hyslop affixed to front pastedown of each volume. |
| Full contemporary tree calf (skillfully rebacked, original gilt-lettered and decorated calf spines and labels preserved). |
| Subjects |
Swallow (Ship) |
| Endeavour (Ship) |
| Dolphin (Ship) |
| Voyages around the world |
| Oceania -- Discovery and exploration |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Wallis, John Samuel, 1825-1897 (author) |
| Carteret, Philip, d. 1796 (author) |
| Cook, James, 1728-1779 (author) |
| Call number |
RARE 910.45 HAW (3 volumes) |
