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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  The C.L. Thomas Collection
• Sale Date:
  21 Mar 2012 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  433
• Lot Description:
  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. Drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. In three volumes. 2nd ed. London : Printed for W Strahan and T Cadell, 1773. 4to. Page size: 285 x 230mm. Volume I: xxxvi, 456p. 21 maps and plates. Volume II: xiv, 410p. 22 maps and plates. Volume III: 395p. Nine maps and plates. 2514. Beddie 650. Full leather. Rebacked. New endpapers. Hinges reinforced. Trimming to contents. Wear to original boards, especially to extremities. Sporadic foxing to contents. Label of Rossal Hall Library on front pastedowns. Bookplate of Roger Hesketh Esq, Tulketh, on front pastedown of volume I. Small tape repair to reverse of 'A chart of the Straights of Magellan [etc]' (in volume I). Dampstaining to lower region of several pages of volume III. The main purpose of the first voyage, undertaken at the suggestion of the Royal Society, was to observe the transit of Venus at Tahiti on 3 June 1769. This task completed, Cook's additional instructions directed him to the search for the hypothetical southern continent in a specific area of the South Pacific. Failing its discovery, he was to explore as much of the New Zealand coast as circumstances permitted. From the Poverty Bay landing on 8 October until his departure from Queen Charlotte Sound six months later on 31 March 1770, landings were made at a number of localities and the coastline charted with remarkable accuracy. A handsome set of the second edition, which includes Hawkesworth's reply to Dalrymple's attack on the account. G to G+.
• Estimate:
  NZ$6,000 - 6,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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