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Voyage dans l'hémisphère austral, et autour du monde : fait sur les vaisseaux de roi, l'Aventure, & la Résolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774, & 1775 / écrit par Jacques Cook ... ; dans lequel on a inséré la Relation du Capitaine Furneaux, & celle de MM. Forster ; traduit de l'anglois ; ouvrage enrichi de plans, de cartes, de planches, de portraits, & de vues de pays, dessinés pendant l'expéditio...

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Author:
Cook, James 1728-1779  Search this
Furneaux, Tobias 1735-1781  Search this
Forster, Johann Reinhold 1729-1798  Search this
Forster, Georg 1754-1794  Search this
Suard, J. B. A (Jean Baptiste Antoine) 1734-1817  Search this
Wales, William 1734?-1798  Search this
Bayly, William 1737-1810  Search this
Pingeron, Jean Claude 1730-1795  Search this
Pringle, John Sir 1707-1782 Discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners French  Search this
Illustrator:
Hodges, William 1744-1797  Search this
Printer:
Hérissant, Marie-Nicole -1798  Search this
Engraver:
Bénard, Robert 1734-  Search this
Former owner:
McAllister, John 1753-1830 DSI  Search this
United States Naval Observatory Library DSI  Search this
United States Department of State Library DSI  Search this
Subject:
Resolution (Ship)  Search this
Adventure (Bark)  Search this
Physical description:
5 v., 65 [i.e. 67] leaves of plates (36 folded) : ill., maps, ports. ; 27 cm. (4to)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Place:
Oceania
Antarctica
Date:
1778
Notes:
Tomes 1-4 translated by J.B.A. Suard, from: A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world.
Tome 5 translated by Pingeron, from: Observations made during a voyage round the world, on physical geography, natural history, and ethnic philosophy ... / by John Reinhold Forster. London, 1778.
Plates signed: Benard direx.
"De l'impr. de la veuve Hérissant ..., 1778"--Colophon, t. 5.
Collation of each tome: t. 1: vij, v-xliv, 460 p., plates 1-17, plus plate numbered "10 bis"; t. 2: viij, 432 p., plates 18-37; t. 3: viij, 374 p., plates 38-58; t. 4: viij, 413, [3] p., plates 59-65, plus one folded table numbered "302 bis"; t. 5: xij, 510, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates, plus 1 unnumbered folded table.
"Extrait de l'ouvrage, intitulé: Observations astronomiques ... par M. Wales ... & M. Bayly ..." : p. 303-357, t. 4.
"Discours sur les moyens employés dans ces derniers tems, & sur-tout dans la seconde expédition du Capitaine Cook, pour conserver la santé des gens de mer ... par le chevalier Pringle": p. 358-388, t. 4.
"Vocabulaire de la langue des Isles de la Société": p. [259]-302 bis, t. 4.
Tome 5 has special t.p., which reads: Observations faites, pendant le second voyage de M. Cook, dans l'h́emisphère austral, et autour du monde ... par M. Forster, père ... ; ouvrage traduit de l'anglois. A Paris : Hotel de Thou ..., 1778.
Title vignettes; head- and tail-pieces; side-notes. Some tail-pieces are signed by Huault.
Errors in paging.
Errata: p. [415]-[416], t. 4.
Plates accompanied by blank tissue guard-sheets.
Beddie, M.K. Captain James Cook (1970 ed.), 1223
Sabin 16249
Topic:
Voyages around the world  Search this
Physical geography  Search this
Natural history  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Hawaiian language  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
G420 .C77vo F1778
G420.C77vo F1778
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_391518