The New Voyage Round The World by Captain James Cook on the ship Endeavour

Description: The New Voyage, Round The World, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771; Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty, Performed by Captain James Cook, In The Ship Endeavour, Drawn up from his own Journal, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. and Published by the special Direction of The Right Honourable the Lords of The Admiralty. In Two Volumes (Vol.II Only) With Cutts and a Map of the Whole Navigation. (1 folding plate as frontispiece) Author: Hawkesworth, John (c. 1715 - 1773) 8vo.(4.5" x 7.625") 1774. Hawkesworth, John. New York. Printed for William Aikman. Full brown polished leather. Spine with five raised bands, gilt author/title to gilt framed red leather in second compartment, gilt vol# to third, each other compartment with gilt rule borders. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with minor loss to tips, spine chipped with loss of gilt, leather pitted (see pic). Front and rear free flyleaves lacking, folding plate as frontispiece with chipped fore-edge, closed tears and small loss, with old tape repair to reverse. Title page fore-edge chipped, darkened with age, rest of text evenly toned. Early bookplate of John Campbell, Charles County to front pastedown, surrounded by penciled booksellers' notes. Vol.II only of 2. From Wiki: John Hawkesworth LLD (c. 1715 - 1773) was an English writer and book editor, born in London. He was commissioned by the Admiralty to edit Captain James Cook's papers relative to his first voyage. For this work, An Account of the Voyages undertaken ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone John Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals ... (3 vols, 1773). Hawkesworth is said to have received from the publishers the sum of £6000, an unprecedented amount at the time, and An Account would go on to become one of the most popular travel books of the eighteenth century. Captain James Cook FRS (1728 - 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. In these voyages, Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously charted by Western explorers. He surveyed and named features and recorded islands and coastlines on European maps for the first time. During his third voyage in the Pacific, Cook encountered the Hawaiian islands in 1779. He was killed while attempting to take hostage Kalaniʻōpuʻu, chief of the island of Hawaii, during a dispute. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge that influenced his successors well into the 20th century. We are currently putting all 5000+ titles online, but if there is a specific title you are looking for, please reach out to sidekerbookselleratgmail.com, we may just have it! Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey. Sonny Ideker Bookseller is located within City Antiques in Historic Roswell, Georgia at 700 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA. 30076. We would love to have you visit or email us at sidekerbookseller at gmail.com for specific wants or needs, thanks! Find Us On: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Sonny-Ideker-Bookseller-Rare-Antiquarian-Leather-Vellum-Bound-Books-100068669041560/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SonnyIdekerBookseller/about Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonny_ideker_bookseller Flickr: https://flic.kr/ps/2v6pn4 Website: https://sonnyideker.weebly.com/ Antique Books, Old Leather Book, Old Vellum Book, Decorative Binding, Antiquarian Book, Vintage decorative, Ancient Leather, Rare Books, Decorative Books, Decorative Leather, Beautiful Decorative Book

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