A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world : performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years, 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 / written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution ; in which is included, Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships ; in two volumes ; illustrated with maps and charts, and a varie...
2 volumes : plates (some folded), portraits (including frontispiece), maps (some folded), folded plan ; 30 cm (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Early works
Place:
Oceania
Antarctica
Date:
1777
MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Notes:
Plates signed by engravers: J. Basire, Gulielmus Whitchurch, B.T. Pouncy, Lerperniere, J.K. Shirwin/Sherwin, W. Byrne, W. Palmer, Record, F. Bartolozzi, W. Woollett, J. Russell, J. Hall, Aliamet, Jas. Roberts, W. Watts and J. Caldwall. Many are signed by illustrator Wm. Hodges.
Pagination of each volume: volume 1: xl, 378 pages, 38 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) ; volume 2: [8], 396 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates.
Errata (for both volumes): volume 2, page [7] (1st group).
"A vocabulary of the language of the Society Isles" --Volume 2, pages [317]-363.
"A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners, by Sir John Pringle" --Volume 2, pages 369-396.
