Captain Cook's third and last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780 / faithfully abridged from the quarto edition published by order of His Majesty
- Bib ID:
- 2289729
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cook, James, 1728-1779
- Uniform Title:
- Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Abridgements
- Description:
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- London : Printed for John Fielding, Pater Noster Row and John Stockdale, Piccadilly, [1785?]
- ii, [x], 370 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
- Notes:
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- A large octavo variant of the 12mo ed. published in 1785.
- This variant has the frontis. plate reversed with Cook facing right instead of left with caption title: Captain James Cook, F.R.S. There isn't any additional text relating to imprint and names of engravers, etc.
- This variant has larger font mainly with same pagination as the 12mo ed. except for the preliminaries and finishing on p.370. It also has many more plates some of them col.
- Vignette of part of Cook's coat of arms on t.p.
- Signatures: a⁴b²B⁸Aa⁸
- Library's SR leather copy has five duplicate col. plates for the frontis. and opposite pages 97, 121, 188, 267. With spine title: Cook's voyage.
- Cited In:
- Beddie, M.K. Cook (2nd ed), 1555 [variant]
- Subject:
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- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- North Pacific Region
- Clerke, Charles, 1741-1779 -- Travel -- North Pacific Region
- Gore, John, -1790 -- Travel -- North Pacific Region
- Discovery (Ship : Captain = James Cook)
- Resolution (Ship)
- Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800
- Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
- North Pacific Region -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1784
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1785
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