CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) [Third Voyage] -- [John RICKMAN]. Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage... the second edition. London: E. Newbery, 1781. 8 (22.5 x 14.5cm). Folding engraved frontispiece of the death of Cook, folding map, 4 plates, one folding, three of the plates by Royce, two of these after Dodd. (Title and frontispiece loosely inserted, light browning to the map, small wormhole to inner blank margin of Cc7-Ee8.) Original boards, uncut (rebacked in cloth). Second edition "Carefully revised with the original manuscript, the latitudes and longitudes throughout the northern course added, and some of the errors in the former edition corrected" (Mitchell Library Cook p.314). This account of of Cook's final voyage was published anonymously two years before the appearance of the authorised version. It was variously attributed to John Ledyard and William Ellis until John Rickman was proved to be the author by Frederic Howay in 1921. Mitchell Library Cook 1610.
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK (1728-1779) [Third Voyage] -- [John RICKMAN]. Journal of Captain Cook's last voyage... the second edition. London: E. Newbery, 1781. 8 (22.5 x 14.5cm). Folding engraved frontispiece of the death of Cook, folding map, 4 plates, one folding, three of the plates by Royce, two of these after Dodd. (Title and frontispiece loosely inserted, light browning to the map, small wormhole to inner blank margin of Cc7-Ee8.) Original boards, uncut (rebacked in cloth). Second edition "Carefully revised with the original manuscript, the latitudes and longitudes throughout the northern course added, and some of the errors in the former edition corrected" (Mitchell Library Cook p.314). This account of of Cook's final voyage was published anonymously two years before the appearance of the authorised version. It was variously attributed to John Ledyard and William Ellis until John Rickman was proved to be the author by Frederic Howay in 1921. Mitchell Library Cook 1610.
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