A New Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Perfomed 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. To which will be added, Complete and Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Discovery Round the World. The Whole comprehending a full Account, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. now publishing under the immediate Direktion of George William Anderson.

(Cook, James) - Anderson, Georg William:

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London, Printed for Alex Hogg, (1784-86). Folio (385 x 235 mm). 655 + (5) pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 1 folding engraved map and 155 engraved plates, maps and views. Portrait, title, preface, folding map and the last two pages with neatly repaired marginal tears. A few plates and pages with minor marginal waterstaining. 1 plate with tear in lower margin. Finely bound in modern half morocco with red leather label and six raised bands (Baythun, Bath). .

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• Title: A New Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Perfomed 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. To which will be added, Complete and Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of ...
• Binding: Hardcover