ELLIS, William (1728-1779). [THIRD VOYAGE] -- An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Reolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America . London: For G. Robinson, 1782. 2 volumes, 8 o (240 x 145 mm). 22 engraved plates, including folding chart (lacks half-titles, scattered pale foxing and offsetting). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Ellis, Surgeon's Mate during Cook's second voyage, ignored the command to surrender all journals and logs at journey's end. Financial trouble prompted him to sell his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. Published two years before the official narrative, and recounting Cook's death four years before Samwell's Narrative , the work contains early records of the third voyage, as well as some of the earliest plates depicting the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Sabin 22333; Hill p.95; Mitchell Library Cook 1599; Holmes 42. (2)
ELLIS, William (1728-1779). [THIRD VOYAGE] -- An Authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty's Ships Reolution and Discovery, During the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780; in search of a North-West Passage Between the Continents of Asia and America . London: For G. Robinson, 1782. 2 volumes, 8 o (240 x 145 mm). 22 engraved plates, including folding chart (lacks half-titles, scattered pale foxing and offsetting). Contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. Ellis, Surgeon's Mate during Cook's second voyage, ignored the command to surrender all journals and logs at journey's end. Financial trouble prompted him to sell his narrative to a bookseller for fifty guineas. Published two years before the official narrative, and recounting Cook's death four years before Samwell's Narrative , the work contains early records of the third voyage, as well as some of the earliest plates depicting the Hawaiian Islands, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. Sabin 22333; Hill p.95; Mitchell Library Cook 1599; Holmes 42. (2)
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