Saggio dell'opera Voyages autour du monde, o sia I viaggi di Cook, 1799-1805 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 4902846
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Bertacchi, Francesco
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MS Acc10.059 copy
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- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1799-1805]
- 0.03 m. (1 v.)
- Summary:
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MS Acc10.059 comprises a 436-page monograph in Italian on Captain James Cook's three voyages. Based on the Paris edition of Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard's translation of Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. Consists of title page, four-page note to the reader, five-page introduction, chapters on each of Cook's voyages, and a "Note del compilatore questo saggio". In the final chapter Bertacchi gives his own notes on the voyages and subsequent history in the Pacific, making reference to a wide range of other sources, and including discussions of the voyages of Malaspina, La Perouse and d'Entrecasteaux, which were modelled on those of Cook (1 v.).
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- Manuscript reference no.: MS Acc10.059.
- Translation of: Voyage dans l'hemisphere austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux de roi l'Aventure & la Résolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775.
- Translated by Francesco Bertacchi, antiquarian and nobleman from Barga, Tuscany.
- MS Acc10.059 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3215422336
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- Time Coverage:
- 1772-1775
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