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LOT 1099
SOLD €1700,00

[Pacific. Cook] Troisième voyage de Cook, ou Voyage a l'océan Pacifique,

ordonné par le Roi d'Angleterre, pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémishere Nord, pour déterminer la position & l'étendue de la côte Ouest de l'Amérique Septentrionale, sa distance de l'Asie, & résoudre la question du passage au Nord. Exécuté sous la direction des capitaines Cook, Clerke & Gore (...) en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduite de l'Anglois par M. D******** [Jean-Nicolas Démeunier]. Paris, Hôtel de Thou, 1785, 4 vols., (10),CXXXII,437,(3); (4),422; (4),488; (4),552 p., with 88 (folding) maps, plans, views and other plates (incl. the fine large fold world map measuring 64 x 93 cm), num. letterpress tables of which 1 large fold., 19th-century unif. gilt half calf, 4to.

All vols. with library stamps on (half) titles scratched away (paper thin there); occas. sl. foxed or (vaguely) waterst.; occas. minor other defects. Folding plates 82-87 depict coastal profiles and (as is the case with a few other plates) are not placed in the regular numerical order. Good, attractively bound set of a work rarely found complete. Sabin 16261. The first French edition, a translation of Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 1784.

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