Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. with Notes and Introduction, edited by Captain W.J.L. Wharton
Published by Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1968
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Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Cream cloth boards, green title patch to spine. Australiana Facsimile Editions No 188. Black & white plates and facsimile documents (2) & fold-out maps and charts. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 400 pages. The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3 - 4 June of that year), and to seek evidence of the postulated Terra Australis Incognita or "unknown southern land". Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Captain Cook's Journal during his First Voyage round the World made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. with Notes and Introduction, edited by Captain W.J.L. Wharton
- Author
- Cook, James Captain; Wharton, Captain W.J.L. (Edited by)
- Publisher
- Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardback
- Edition
- Facsimile Edition.
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- Aust-History
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