Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery : performed in the years 177...
Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery : performed in the years 177...
Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery : performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, illustrated with cuts, and a chart, shewing the tracts of the ships employed in this expedition. Faithfully narrated from the original MS.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
London : Printed for E. Newbery, 1781.
Date
1781.
Call Numbers
78/31 , RB/DS990A/84 , DSM/980/CO4/R/1A1
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
[4], xlvi, 388 [i.e. 396] p., [6] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (1 folded), folded map, port. ; 21 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
London : Printed for E. Newbery, 1781.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1781.
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Copyright status: Out of copyright.
Please acknowledge: State Library of New South Wales.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
The Forbes AA state and the earliest known state of the 1st ed. It includes the uncancelled leaf D4 (p. xxxix-xl) and the cancelled leaves (p. xxxix-xlvi). The uncancelled state contains no new information, specifically, Cook's observations of the non-existence of the Southern Continent, from words taken from his official account to the second voya...
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Full title
Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean on Discovery : performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, illustrated with cuts, and a chart, shewing the tracts of the ships employed in this expedition. Faithfully narrated from the original MS.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Notes
General note
"A surreptitious and anonymous publication anticipating the authorised account ..."--Cook bibliography.
Attributed to John Rickman; previously attributed to John Ledyard, and also to William Ellis.
Cook bibliography. 2nd ed. No. 1607.
P. 393-396 incorrectly numbered 381, 378-9 and 388.
Selected for Digitisation 2013...
Additional physical form availability note
Also available online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4030050
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
78/31 , RB/DS990A/84 , DSM/980/CO4/R/1A1
Record Identifier
74VKMKb5DJBA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKMKb5DJBA
Other Identifiers
DDC
910.41
910.9164
MMS ID
991021173039702626
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