Captain Cook's Voyages Round The World Author: Captain James Cook Editor: M. K. Beddie. Publisher: Matthew Brown, Newcastle Upon Tyne. (At Bible Shop the Fresh Market) Date: 1790 Brown plain leather hardcover badly spotted. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.non-fictionThis specific printing of Captain Cook's voyages is a fascinating piece of late 18th-century provincial book history. This is a rare 18th-century provincial English edition. In the definitive reference work for Cook collectors M. K. Beddie’s Bibliography of Captain James Cook this exact printing is catalogued and recognised globally as Beddie No. 44. It was issued as a multi-volume set, typically bound in three thick octavo volumes or sometimes split into four. Rather than just copying the standard London texts, this specific edition is an expansive compilation. It includes Cook's three major voyages alongside supplementary accounts of the era, such as Captain Furneaux’s journals, Commodore Phipps’s expedition to the North Pole and, notably, Governor Arthur Phillip’s historic voyage to Botany Bay and the establishment of the Port Jackson colony.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, book, pattison collection, warrnambool library, warrnambool mechanics’ institute, ralph eric pattison, corangamite regional library service, warrnambool city librarian, mechanics’ institute library, victorian library board, warrnambool books and records, warrnambool children’s library, captain cooks voyages round the world, james cook

Green colored hard cover bookcaptain james cook

Ill, p.264.non-fictionA description of Cook's journeys for a juvenile audience.exploration, james cook - travels