Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

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Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

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Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

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Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

Date

25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

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Yold64E9

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446937

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Textual Records (2 bound volumes) - manuscript

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Purchased in March 1768, the collier Earl of Pembroke was converted to HMS Endeavour and placed under the command of Lieutenant James Cook on a voyage of discovery to the Pacific.
Cook’s instructions were to establish an observatory at Tahiti to view the Transit of Venus on 3 June 1769. The data obtained from this and similar observations at st...

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Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771

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Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820

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Bequest of David Scott Mitchell, 1907.
The provenance of Banks' journal of the Endeavour voyage is contentious. H.B. Carter describes it as having been sold at auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge on 17 June 1880. It was presumably offered for sale by Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, Lord Brabourne. It was purchased at the time by Quaritch of Lond...