Cartes et figures des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté britannique, actuellement régnante, pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional (...) [A Paris, chez Saillant et Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774.]
In-4 bound in full contemporary speckled calf. This collection contains the illustrations of the text volumes (16 plates relating to volume 1; 16 to volume 2; 17 to volume 3 and 3 to volume 4.)
A rare copy of this beautiful atlas, complete with the 52 plates and maps of "the relation of the voyages undertaken by order of His Britannic Majesty, presently reigning; to make discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively executed by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis & Captain Cook, in the vessels the Dauphin, the Swallow & the Endeavour: written according to the journals kept by the different commanders & the papers of Mr. Banks".
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