- Bib ID:
- 1912697
- Format:
- Book
- Uniform Title:
- Journal of a voyage round the world in His Majesty's ship Endeavour. German
- Description:
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- Berlin : bey Haude und Spener, 1772
- [iii], xvi, [1], 232 p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
- Notes:
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- Head-pieces; initials.
- Includes: "Kurzgefasstes Verzeichniss einiger Wörter, als eine Probe von der Sprache jener Völker, die auf den neuentdeckten Inseln in der Südsee, Utahitti, Hohaina, Uliattia, u.s.w. Uttahah, Bola-Bola, Ohaiteroah, Tabuamana, gesprochen wird." (p. 193-200) ; "Sendschreiben eines Freundes in London an den Uebersetzer." (p. 202-232)
- Translation of: A journal of a voyage round the world in His Majesty's ship Endeavour, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771. London : T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1771.
- Translation by: Johann Karl Philipp Spener (cf. Du Rietz, 217)
- Authorship of this work has been variously attributed to James Matra, Banks, Solander, and others (cf. Beddie, 693). However, extensive research attributes it with some authority to James Mario Matra. (cf. Alan Frost, 'The precarious life of James Mario Matra', Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 1995, pp. 5-6)
- Library's FERG copy contains a Ferguson bookplate and is quarter bound in blue by Benjamin Boore, Sydney, probably in the early 20th century.
- Library's SR copy is in an older plain pasteboard case binding.
- Cited In:
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- Beddie, 698.
- Sabin, 16243
- Palmer, P. M. German works on America, 370
- Du Rietz, R. Bibliotheca Polynesiana, 217
- Subject:
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- Also Titled:
- Auszug aus dem Tagebuch des königl. Schiffs the Endeavour
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1827
- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1772
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