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 : in three volumes

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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 : in three volumes

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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).

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First edition in quarto.

Errors in paging: v. 1, page after p. 138 is numbered 139-360; v. 2, p. 189 misnumbered 191.

"MS. note on p.139-360 of a B.L. copy states that the first voyage in this volume, that of Commodore Byron, was intended as the third voyage in the collection but was placed as the first voyage; this seems to account for the peculiar pagination of p.139."--ESTC.

Pagination and register continuous in vols. 2 and 3 (cf. ESTC); v. 2 paged [1]-410; v. 3 paged [411]-799.

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).

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

ESTC (RLIN) T074465.

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

Bib. Captain James Cook 648.

Du Rietz, R. Bib. Polynesiana, 535.

Holmes, M. Captain James Cook 5

Library's copy signed Wm. Z. Mulvaney (?), 1843, and with bookplate of John James Diggs La Touche, undated.

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Early works to 1800.
Other Titles
Cook's first voyage

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G420.C65 H3 1773

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3 v. :

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OL22975212M
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05034857

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