Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté britannique, actuellement regnante : pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphere méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour / rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différens commandans & le...
4 volumes, 52 leaves of plates in various foliations (40 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm (4to)
Type:
Books
Place:
Oceania
Date:
1774
Notes:
Translation of: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere.
"De l'imprimerie de J.G. Clousier"--Colophon.
Engravers include Benard, R. de Launay, Godefroy, Le Veau, Demonchy, Patas, and Duret.
Collation of each volume: t. 1: [4], vi, [5], vi-xvj, [2], xxxij, 388 p., plates 1-16; t. 2: [6], 536 p., plates 1-16; t. 3: [6], 394, [2] p., plates 1-17; t. 4: viij, 367, [3] p., plates 1-3.
Head- and tail-pieces (some signed "Beugnet sc." or "J.F."); side notes.
Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.
Beddie, M.K. Captain James Cook (1970 ed.), 659
Sabin 30940
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c. 1 is imperfect: plate 7 in t. 1, and the final 2 p. (a colophon leaf) in t. 3, are wanting.
SCNHRB c. 1 has bookplates: 1. U.S. Naval Observatory (stamp: Hydrographical Office); 2. Library of the Department of State, with accession no.: 4396. [Gift to SIL from the State Dept. Library, 1979].
SCNHRB c. 1 has later blue cloth binding with printed paper spine labels and marbled endpapers.
SCNHRB c. 2 has plates 6 and 7 in t. 1 misbound between plates 1 and 2.
SCNRHB c. 2 has bookplates: 1. John McAllister; 2. Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Margaret Schmidt.
SCNHRB c. 2 has old half-leather bindings with brown spattered-paper boards and gilt-tooled spines; housed in later linen-covered boxes with printed paper spine labels.