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. ... : to which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. ... : it is proper to observe ... this edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers ... enables every person ... to become familiarly acquainted with those extraordinary and important voyages and discoveries ... /
Anderson, George William.
Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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London : Printed for Alex. Hogg ... and sold by all booksellers and news-carriers,
[1786?]
eng
This compilation of British navigators' accounts of their voyages around the world covers the famous voyages of Sir Francis Drake and Captain James Cook, as well as expeditions by George Anson, John Byron, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret, and Constantine Phipps (Lord Mulgrave). In 1740-44, Anson led a three-year-and-nine-month mission that raided Spanish commerce off the coast of Peru before returning to England via the Cape of Good Hope. Byron made a voyage in 1764-65, during which he discovered the Islands of Disappointment (in present-day French Polynesia) and several smaller islands. Wallis and Carteret set out in 1766 to find a rumored, but non-existent, southern continent at 20 degrees south latitude. Failing to find such a landmass, they went on to discover Tahiti and a number of other islands in what is now French Polynesia, before returning to England in 1769. Mulgrave was the first British Arctic explorer. In a 1773 attempt to find a passage to Asia via what some navigators speculated was an "Open Polar Sea," he made the first scientific voyage aimed at reaching the North Pole. Sailing north from England, Mulgrave and his two ships reached the west coast of Svalbard, Norway, before being forced to turn back by pack ice.
Includes Accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Anson, and Sir F. Drake: p. [215]-398; List of subscribers: 4 p. at end.
LC copy imperfect: wanting List of subscribers and 4 plates, including the engraved frontispiece.
Signatures: [A]² b-8B² 8C⁴.
ESTC (RLIN)
Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Discoveries in geography--English--Early works to 1800.
Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.
Oceania--Discovery and exploration--English--Early works to 1800.
Pacific Area--Discovery and exploration--English--Early works to 1800.
England London.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/Kislak.68915