An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty : for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up From the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with Cuts, and a great Variety of Charts and Maps relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages around the world.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3v.,plates ) maps ;

Edition:

[Second edition].

Other Title:

Account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

Notes:

A reissue of the first edition, with an additional gathering of four leaves inserted with the drop-head title 'Preface to the second edition'.

Without the two leaves of 'Directions for placing the cuts and charts'.

The volumes are paginated (ignoring preliminaries) as follows: vol. 1, 676p., vol. 2, 410p., vol. 3, [411]-799p.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T74467.

OCLC:

789668549