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... in three volumes. Illustrated with cuts, and a great variety of charts and maps...
John Hawkesworth (1720-1773)
Category
Books
Date
1773
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
NT 3033884
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates : maps ; 4to. Vols. 2-3 only; vol. 1 is variant state, catalogued separately. Provenance: nineteenth-century round seal bookplate: "Thomae Bowater Vernon Arma" [i.e. Thomas Bowater Vernon (1832-1859)]; (pasted over former bookplate). Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; rebacked, nineteenth-century, with gold tooled ship motif.
Makers and roles
John Hawkesworth (1720-1773)