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NameNew, 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. ... To which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. ... Illustrated with all the elegant, splendid, and fine large folio copper-plates, belonging to Capt. Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / the whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook, &c., 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, who sailed in the various ships and now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson ... assisted, very materially, by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by other gentlemen of the Royal Navy.
ProductionGeorge Anderson; editor; 1784; London
Alexander Hogg; publisher; 1784; London
John Eastgate; engraver (printmaker)
Captain James Cook; author
Alexander Hogg; publisher; 1784; London
John Eastgate; engraver (printmaker)
Captain James Cook; author
Classificationrare books
Materialsprinting paper, ink, leather
Materials Summaryleather bound book
Techniquesprinting
Registration NumberRB000015
Credit lineGift of Charles Rooking Carter