WITH FRONTISPIECE BY PAUL REVERE (COOK, JAMES.) Hawkesworth, John. A New Voyage Round The World. 2 engraved frontispieces, the first by paul revere; folding engraved map. [2], 17, [1], 4, [2], 260; [2], 250 pages. 2 volumes. 12mo, 194x112 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 red straight-grain morocco, joints and spine ends rubbed; contents toned, scattered foxing and minor stains, discreetly repaired clean tears in both frontispieces with dampstain in upper margin of the second, map partly separated at one fold and reinforced along another on verso, blank upper margin of A1 restored in Volume 2. New York: James Rivington, 1774
first american edition of the official account of cook's first voyage; first issue. "The first voyage under the not-yet-famous Captain Cook's command, on the Endeavor, was primarily of a scientific nature. The expedition was to sail to Tahiti in order to observe the transit of Venus across the disk of the sun, to determine the earth's distance from the sun, and also to carry on the geographical discovery that John Byron had started"--Hill 782 (1773 original edition). Beddie 656 (this edition); Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, pages 102-05.
