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. ... Vol. I. [-III.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.

Byron, John, 1723-1786.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages around the world.

Patagonians.

Giants.

Oceania--Description and travel.

Oceania.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations, charts, plans ; 29 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand., M DCC LXXIII. [1773]

Notes:

First editon in quarto.

Volume 2: p. 189 misnumb.: "191".

Charts, plans and views unnumbered; illustrative plates numbered 1-23 (1-12, 17-18 in v.2; 13-16, 19-20 in v.3; 21-23 in v.1). Plate 21 misnumb: "22"; pl. 22 misnumb: "23"; pl. 23 misnumb.: "21".

Errata (v.1: p. xxxvi, [xxxvii]-[xxxix], 3rd count; v.2: p. [1], 2nd count).

Contents: An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXIV, MDCCLXV, and MDCCLXVI. By the Honourable Commodore Byron, in His Majesty's ship The Dolphin (v.1: p. [1]-139/360. 7 plates. (the sixth plate numbered "23", error for "22"). -- An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVI, MDCCLXVII, and MDCCLXVIII. By Samuel Wallis, Esq; commander of His Majesty's ship The Dolphin (v.1: p. [2-3], 5th count, [363]-522. 5 plates (the first plate numbered "21", error for "23", and the second plate numbered "22", error for "21"). -- An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVI, MDCCLXVII, MDCCLXVIII, and MDCCLXIX. By Philip Carteret, Esquire, commander of His Majesty's sloop The Swallow (v.1: p. [523]-676, 9 plates). -- An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVIII, MDCCLXIX, MDCCLXX, and MDCCLXXI. By Lieutenant James Cook, commander of His Majesty's bark The Endeavour (v.2: p. [ix]-xv, [1], 2nd count, [1]-410, 3rd count. 22 plates, including plates 1-12, 17-18; v.3: p. [411]-799. 9 plates, including plates. 13-16, 19-20); an account of Cook's first circumnavigation.

All four accounts of voyages with several chapters on South America.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: erratum: p. [xxxvii]-[xxxix] and Chart of the Streight of Magellan wanting.

Cited in:

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:1863.

Bib. Captain James Cook 648.

Du Rietz, R. Bib. Polynesiana, 535.

ESTC T074465.

Holmes, M. Captain James Cook 5

Related Work:

Byron, John, 1723-1786. Voyage round the world, in His Majesty's ship The Dolphin.

OCLC:

21916761