A voyage round the world, performed in His Britannic Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775 / written by James Cook and George Forster ... ; and a variety of portraits of persons and views of places, drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges
- Bib ID:
- 1009311
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Uniform Title:
- Voyage towards the South Pole and round the world
- Description:
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- Dublin : Printed for W. Whitestone [and others], 1777
- 4 v. : ill., maps (part fold.) ; 21 cm.
- Summary:
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Consists of Cook's Voyage towards the South Pole and round the world (volumes 1-2) and Forster's Voyage round the world (volumes 3-4).
- Full contents:
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- Volume 1. A voyage towards the South Pole and round the world [by] James Cook.
- Volume 2. A voyage towards the South Pole and round the world [by] James Cook. Tables of the route of the Resolution and Adventure ... A vocabulary of the language of the Society Isles. A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners, delivered at the... Royal Society, Nov. 30, 1776, by John Pringle.
- Volumes 3-4. A voyage round the world [by George Forster].
- Notes:
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- Half-title volumes 1-2: A voyage towards the South Pole and round the world.
- Library's SR1 copy has spine title: Cook & Forster's voyages; bears the book label of Frances Viscountess Lorton with manuscript additions indicating bequeathed in 1841 to ?; title page of volume 1 inscribed in ink, L.H. Harman (?).
- Library's SR2 copy has spine-title: Cook & Forster; front board of volume 1 detatched; volumes 1-4 bear the armorial bookplate of Tervoe ('Mone sale') [the seat of Baron William Monsell (1812-1894)] pasted inside the front covers; ex libris bookplate by Hardy Wilson for Mabel Balcombe Brookes loosely inserted in volumes 1 and 3.
- Library's SR2 copy has on spine: C2915a [Cameron & Carroll].
- Cited In:
- Beddie, M.K. Cook (2nd ed.), 1218 (Cook), 1248 (Forster).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Forster, Johann Georg, 1754-1794. Voyage round the world performed in His Britannic Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775
- Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782
- Hodges, William, 1744-1797
- King, Frances, Viscountess Lorton of Boyle, 1775-1841, former owner
- Brookes, Mabel Balcombe, Dame, 1890–1975, former owner
- Monsell, William, 1812-1894, former owner
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1777
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