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.