A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean

Full Title: A voyage to the Pacific Ocean : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere: performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 : being a copious, comprehensive, and satisfactory abridgement of the voyage / written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. and Captain James King, LL.D. and F.R.S. : illustrated with cuts : in four volumes.

James Cook, 1728-1779

London : Printed for John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy

MDCCLXXXIV [1784] [i.e. -1785]

4 v. : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 21 cm. (8vo)

Vol. 1: viii, [1], vi-xii, 370 p., [19] leaves of plates : 17 ill., 1 port., 1 chart ; v. 2: xii, 359, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : 10 ill.; v. 3: xii, 400 p., [17] leaves of plates (2 folded) : 16 ill., 2 maps (on 1 plate); v. 4: xii, 310, [64] p., [4] leaves of plates : 4 ill.

Printer's device on title pages.

Engravers: T. Cook, W. & J. Walker, W. Angus, Pollard, J. Goldar, Birrell, Webber, Sparrow, Whitaker, Page.

Illustrations engraved after Webber's designs.

Published in 24 parts, 1784-1785.

"A list of the subscribers": v. 4, p. [349-372].

Includes index.

Presented by Seymour Schulich [Gift2015]

King, James, 1750-1784.
Webber, John, 1751-1793, ill.
Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, printer.
Scatcherd, James, 1755-1828, printer.
Whitaker J., fl. 1784. printer.
Hardy, John, fl. 1784. printer.
Fielding, John (Bookseller)
Schulich, Seymour, donor. former owner.
Schulich-Woolf Collection.

English

G420 .C72 1784
Beddie, M.K. Cook, 1545
ESTC T145011
Forbes, 69