[COOK (James)]. HAWKESWORTH (John). Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de S. M. Britannique, pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional, et successively exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis et le capitaine Cook. Paris, Saillant & Nyon, Panckoucke, 1774. 4 volumes in-4, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, spine decorated, red edges (period binding). First French edition, translated by Jean-Baptiste Suard and illustrated with 30 maps and 22 out-of-text views, most of them folding, engraved by Benard, Duret, Godefroy, Delaunay and others. This compilation of accounts of British expeditions - commanded successively by Commodore Byron, Captain Carteret, Captain Wallis and Captain Cook, in the vessels the Dauphin, the Swallow and the Endeavour - was written from the commanders' journals and the papers of Joseph Banks. It contains the first official report in French of Cook's first voyage around the world, translated from the English original of 1773 (two years after a first unauthorised report). Covers and corners a little worn, some rubbing to bindings, stains and a few scattered freckles. Sabin, n°30940 - O'Reilly, Tahiti, 368 - Chadenat, n°6104.