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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.

by: Cook, James, 1728-1779

Publication date: 1777

Topics: Voyages around the world, Booksellers' catalogs -- Great Britain -- 1777, Oceania -- Discovery and exploration, Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British, Imprint 1777

Publisher: London: : Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

Volume: 2

2 v. : 32 cm. (4to)

Vol. 1: xl, 378 p., [37] leaves of plates (some folded); v. 2: [8], 396 p., [28] leaves of plates (some folded)

Leaves of plates are numbered I-LXIII but are not arranged in numerical order within the two volumes; each volume also contains one unnumbered leaf of plates; a list of the plates appears in v. 1, p. [xxxvii]-xl, and this list contains one error: plate listed as LIV in v. 2 is actually numbered LIX on the plate itself

Signatures: v. 1: A⁴ a-d⁴ B-3B⁴ 3C² (-3C2); v. 2: A-3D⁴ 3E²

Errata statement: v. 2, p. [7]

Bookseller's advertisements in v. 1, p. [viii], and in v. 2, p. [8]

"A vocabulary of the language of the Society Isles": v. 2, p. [317]-363

"A discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners ... By Sir John Pringle": v. 2, p. [367]-396

Accession: 30045

Addeddate: 2023-09-11 21:21:11

Associated-names: Hodges, William, 1744-1797; Furneaux, Tobias, 1735-1781; Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782. Discourse upon some late improvements of the means for preserving the health of mariners