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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour [electronic resource] :...

A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour [electronic resource] :...

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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour [electronic resource] : faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World; and embellished with twenty-nine views and designs, engraved by Capital Artists. To which is now added, remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. &c. And an appendix, Containing an Account of the Voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.

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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour [electronic resource] : faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World; and embellished with twenty-nine views and designs, engraved by Capital Artists. To which is now added, remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. &c. And an appendix, Containing an Account of the Voyages of Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, Monsieur Bougainville, Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke.

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London : printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and James Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Date

MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Record Identifier

74VvQmOoDlxb

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991014435829702626

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English

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[2],xxiii,[1],22,212,[2],lxxi,[2],214-353,[1]p.,plates : ports.,maps ; 4°.

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Publisher

London : printed for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry; and James Phillips, in George-Yard, Lombard-Street, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

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A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour [electronic resource] : faithfully transcribed from the papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World; and embellished with twenty-nine views and designs, engraved by Capital Artists. To whic...

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General note

An abridgement of Cook's narratives of his second and third voyages is given in the appendix.

Edited by J. C. Lettsom.

Includes vocabularies of the languages of Otaheite, New Zealand, New Holland, Savos and Sumatra, etc.

Journal of a voyage under the command of Captain James Cook.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

With an errata leaf following p.212....

Citation / References Note

ESTC T110808.

Smith, J. Friends' books, 2.260.

Additional physical form availability note

Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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74VvQmOoDlxb

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991014435829702626