An historical account of the circumnavigation of the globe, and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook. Illustrated by a portrait of Cook ... a facsimile of his observations on the transit of Venus in 1769, and ... engravings by Jackson.
John Jackson (1801-1848)
Category
Books
Date
1836
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3214799
Summary
Bibliographic description
496 p. ; ill., port., fold. facsim. ; 17cm (8vo). Scrap of twentieth-century lined paper inserted as marker (p.177, account of Anson and Centurion). Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1825-1892)]. Binding: nineteenth-century half grained, green calf, with marbled paper on boards; gold tooled spine, gold lettered. Uniform with other vols. in series; series title on spine.
Makers and roles
John Jackson (1801-1848), engraver (printmaker)