A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty for making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c.
Anderson, George William
Published by Alex [ander] Hogg, London,, 1784
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Quarto; hardcover, full academic cloth with gilt spine titling; 640pp., with many maps and engraved plates. Moderate wear; re-bound, with new endpapers; pages professionally restored and some maps mounted; frontispiece missing; previous owner's contemporary ink inscriptions to the title page; text block and page edges toned; offset and mild toning to the preliminaries; most plates lightly offset. One page has corner torn away with minor loss of text. Withal, very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. This collection of Cook's voyages - known as "Anderson's Cook" - also covers the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson and Drake. Originally, it was issued in 80 parts priced at sixpence each 'being newly written by the editors from the authentic journals of several principal officers and other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval and philosophical abilities .; and now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson .,' with a view of gaining an impressive market penetration for the material, as confirmed by his comments in the Preface, thus: "Some other editions of these Works, unnecessarily extended to many large Volumes by loose Printing &c. and published by mercenary Persons would cost the Purchaser the enormous Sum of upwards of Twenty Guineas; so that many Thousands of Persons who would wish to peruse the valuable Discoveries so partially communicated to the World have hitherto been excluded from gratifying their eager Curiosity; but this Edition is published in only Eighty Numbers at 6d each, making when complete either One or Two Large Handsome Volumes in Folio. The Poor as well as the Rich will thus become familiarly acquainted with these extraordinary and important Voyages and Discoveries". This single-volume gathering of the individual catchpenny pamphlets by Alexander Hogg of London brings all the information together in a unified setting. Seller Inventory # 200659
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Publisher: Alex [ander] Hogg, London,
Publication Date: 1784
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A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority. Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty, for Making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c. &c. &c. and Successively Performed In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771-1772, 1773, 1774, 1775-1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780. His First Voyage - . for observing the Transit of Venus.; His Second - in the Resolution and Adventure.; His Third and Last - in the Resolution and Discovery. etc. etc. etc. The Whole comprehending a full Account, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, of Whatever is curious, entertaining, and useful, both by Sea and Land, in the various Countries of the known World, faithfully extracted from the original Journals of the respective Voyagers,
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Printed for Alex. Hogg at the Original King's Arms No. 16 Pater-Noster-Row. London. No date -1786. Folio, 1784
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pp. iv, (v)-655, (i) Directions to the Bookbinder, (iv) List of Subscribers. Portrait frontispiece of Cook engraved by Thornton, 1781, General Chart of Cook's Voyages by T. Conder, 155 engraved plates, maps and charts as per the list at the end. Contemporary calf newly rebacked, a single pin hole worming from page 380 enlarging to a very small track and then diminishing, in the top marginal corner, the odd marginal mark and small tear with a small piece of marginal loss, overall a very good copy. *This version of the Cook travels, 'Anderson's Cook', was originally issued in 80 separate weekly six-penny numbers, later bound by the Subscribers, and subsequently issued by Hogg as a single volume. The List of Subscribers shows around 800 names despite which a note at the end reads - '. we have not been able to procure the Names of a tenth Part of our obliging Subscribers.' In addtion to Cook's Journals, Anderson has included accounts of many other navigator's, viz. ' To which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English circum-navigators, &c. under the sanction of government, viz. those of Lord Byron, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, Mr. Parkinson, Capt. Lutwidge, Mess. Ives, Middleton, Smith, Moore, &c. &c. &c. Including a faithful relation of the substance of all the most remarkable and important travels and journeys, which have been undertaken at various times to the different quarters of the world; particularly those of Hanway, Hamilton, Herbert, Drummond, Pocock, Shaw, Stuart, Kalm, Carver, Dalrymple, Burnet, Addison, Barretti, Keysler, Thickness, Twiss, Brydone, Chandler, Johnson, Smollet, Moore, Wraxall, &c.'. Seller Inventory # 63294
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