[COOK (Captain James)] - HAWKESWORTH (John). Cartes et figures des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa majesté britannique, actuellement régnante ; Pour faire des découvertes dans l'Hémisphère Méridional... Rédigés d'après les Journaux tenus par les différens Commandans & les Papiers de M. Banks. Paris : Saillant, Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774. - Atlas in-4, half marbled basane, ornate spine, red edges (period binding). "The only atlas specifically intended to illustrate the "Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté britannique", which covers the first four British circumnavigations by explorers John Byron (1723-1786), Samuel Wallis (1728-1795), Philip Carteret (1733-1796) and James Cook (1728-1779). The text was compiled by English literary scholar John Hawkesworth (1715-1773), who was commissioned to synthesize these relationships due to their numerous illicit publications. The volume contains 52 plates, most of them folding or double-page, illustrating maps, fauna, flora, genre scenes, manners, antiquities, weapons and many other subjects. Extensive wear to spine and hinges, corners dulled, rubbed and worn at edges. Mottling. Plate 6, intended to illustrate Volume 2, is torn."