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: Drawn up From the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In three volumes. Illustrated with Cuts, and a great Variety of Charts and Maps relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. Vol. I.

People / Organizations

• John Hawkesworth (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]

Publication year

1773-1773

ESTC No.

T74467

Grub Street ID

297477

Description

3v.,plates : maps ; 4⁰

Note

A reissue of the first edition, with an additional gathering of four leaves inserted with the drop-head title 'Preface to the second edition'.

Without the two leaves of 'Directions for placing the cuts and charts'.

The volumes are paginated (ignoring preliminaries) as follows: vol. 1, 676p., vol. 2, 410p., vol. 3, [411]-799p.

Uncontrolled note

In vol. 2 first leaf of contents unsigned; press figure 9 on p. xiii