Apr 13, 2023 - Sale 2633

Sale 2633 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(TRAVEL.) John Hawkesworth. A New Voyage Round The World. Map, 2 folding frontispieces (one by Paul Revere), all incomplete and defective. [2], 17, [1], 4, [2], 260; [2], 250 pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, contemporary calf, needs binding; some leaves coming detached, generally worn, several cello tape stains, a few leaves defective, moderate foxing; owners' inscriptions on front endpapers, later owner's small inked stamp on title pages and page 100. New York: James Rivington, 1774
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First American edition of Cook's Voyages; first issue, without additional subscribers listed on verso of preliminary page 17 in Volume 1. A quite defective example of a desirable work. The first frontispiece, engraved by Paul Revere, is missing its left half, is detached, and has a large cello tape stain. Copied faithfully from the 1773 London original, its full title is "Dramatic Interlude & Dance Given by the Indians of Ulietea performed by Two Women & Six Men with three Drums." See Brigham's Revere Engravings, pages 102-104.

Facing page I:1 is the right portion only of the Bernard Romans map of the Atlantic Ocean "Protracted by B. Romans." The Volume II frontispiece (engraver unknown) is also lacking the left portion. Evans 13324; Sabin 30936; Streeter sale, VI:2407.