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journal of Captain Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean
and in quest of a north-west passage, between Asia & America; performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779. : Illustrated with a chart, shewing the tracts of the ships employed in this expedition
208 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 map ; 19 cm. (duodecimo)
Faithfully narrated from the original ms. of Mr. John Ledyard.
Parts of this narrative, including the chart, were copied literally from John Rickman's Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage (London, 1781). Cf. Holmes, Maurice. An introduction to the bibliography of Captain James Cook (London, 1936), pages 36-37.
"First issued in parts to subscribers. Number I, in June, 1783, Number II. in July"--Evans. The parts were issued in printed wrappers, with advertisements of goods for sale by Patten.
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 17998).