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

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Creator

John Hawkesworth (Captain James Cook)

Title

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

Coverage

London

Publisher

W. Strahan

Date

1773

Subject

3 vols

Description

First edition of the account of Captain Cook’s first voyage on the HMS Endeavor (1768-1771), drawn from Cook’s own journals. The expedition, co-sponsored by the Royal Navy and Royal Society, was charged with observing the transit of Venus across the Sun to gather data for astronomical measurement. The great naturalist, Sir Joseph Banks, served as the ship’s official botanist.

Part of a uniformly bound set including the second editions of Cook’s second and third voyages.