A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. . Performed in his majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. Written by James Cook, commander of the Resolution. In which is included, Captain Furneaux's narrative of his proceedings in the adventure during the separation of the ships...
Captain James Cook (1728-1779)
Category
Books
Date
1777
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3040459
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates . 4to.. Imperfect: lacking all plates except frontispiece portrait of Cook in v.1. Bound uniformly and shelved with Kippis's Life of Cook and the rest of Cook's Voyages. Binding: Nineteenth-century full leather binding; gilt fillet and gilt tooled borders; Twentieth-century rebacked spine gilt decorated and lettered: "Cook's Second Voyage. London 1777".
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Captain James Cook (1728-1779) Tobias Furneaux (1735-1781)