A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities.

Date:: [1800?]

Credit: A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... / now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, assisted by a principal officer who sailed in the Resolution sloop, and by many other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval abilities. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$A NEW, AUTHENTIC, and COMPLETE COLLECTION of Round the World Undertaken and Performed by ROYAL AUTHORITY. Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full, and Complete HISTORY of Captain &c. 0-0 K s Fir[t. Second,Third and Lall y O Y AG E I Undertaken by Order of his PRESENT MAJESTY, F O R M A K I N G DISCOVERIES in GEOGRAPHY, NAVIGATION, ASTRONOMY, in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c. &c. Ac. AND SUCCESSIVELY PERFORMED In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771—1772, 1773^ 1774’ 1775 177^5 1777> *77^ J779> ijSo* The Firft Voyage—being profeffedly undertaken in his Majefty’s Ship the Endeavour, for making Difcoveries in the Southern Hemilphere, and round the World. The Second—in the Refolution and Adventure, for making Difcoveries towards the South Pole, and round tne V orld. The Third and Lad—in the Refoluiion and Difcovery, to the Pacific Ocean, for making Difcoveries in the Noithem Hemifphere, and to determine the Pofition and Extent of the Well Side of North America; its Diftance from Alia ; and the Practicability of a Northern Palfage to Europe. Comprehending, among the greated Variety of the moll intcrefling Tranfafiions, a faithful Account of all the Particulars relative to the unfortunate Death of Capt. Cook, with his Life, &c. See. Including likewife all the curious Remarks communicated to this Country by Capt. Cook s principal Affiftants in per¬ forming and conducting thefe celebrated Voyages, viz. Sir jofeph Banks, Dr. Solander, Dr. King, Dr. Hawkefwoith, Dr. Forfter, Mr. Forfter, Capt. Clerke, Capt. Gore, Mr. Ellis, &c. &c. together with Capt. Furneaux’s Narrative of his Pro¬ ceedings in the Adventux'e during the Separation of the Ships in the Second Voyage. TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED, Genuine Narratives of other Voyages of Difcovery Round the World, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by Englifh Circum-Navigators, See. under the San£Hon of Government, viz.thofe of LordBYRO-N, Capt. Wallis, Capt. Carteret, Lord Mu lor ave, Lord Anson, Mi. Parkinson, Capt. Lutwidge, MefT. Ives, Middleton, Smith, Moore, &c. &c. &c. Likewife a faithful Relation of the Subffance of all the mod remarkable and imDortant Travels and Journeys, which have been undertaken at various Limes to the different Quartets oi tne u orld; particularly thofe of Han way, Hamilton, Herbert, Drummond, Pocock.Shaw, Stuart, Kalm Carver Da lrymplf., Burnet Addison, Barretti.Keysler, Thickness, Twiss.Brydone, Chandler, Johnson, Smollet, Moore, VV raxall, Ac. The Whole comprehending a full ACCOUNT, from the EARLIEST PERIOD to the PRESENT TIME, Of whatever is curious, entertaining, and ufeful, both by Sea and Land, in the various Countries of the known World, faithfully extraHed fronj the original Journals of the refpeHive Voyagers, &c. &c. &c. Being the itioll accurate, elegant, and perfeft Edition, of the Whole of Capt. Cook’s Voyages-and Discoveries, &c. ever pub.ifhed, and written in- a more pleafing and elegant Stile than any other Work of the Kind. . Illuftratedwith (befides the curious and intereffing Cuts for Capt. COOK’sFirst and Second Voyages, &c. &c. &c.) all the elegant, lplendid, and fine Large Folio- Copper-Plates, belonging to his Third and Last Voyage, being Views of I laces, Portraits of Perions, tmd hiflorical Reprefentations of remarkable Incidents during this celebrated Navigator s Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; together .with the necelfary Maps, Charts, Plans, Draughts, &c. {hewing the Tracks of fhe Ships, and relative to Countries now firft.difcoveied, or hitherto but imperfe6f!y known ; the Whole (amounting to upwards of ONE Hundred and h ifty Copper-Plates, containing about Two Hundred and Twenty moll Elegant and Superb Engravings) finely engraved and accurately copied from the Origmais y lie mo. eminent Mafters. It is proper to obl'erve, that Come other Editions would cold a Purchafer the enormous Sum of u World, and view the aftonilhing fine Copper-I Six-penny Nu m b e k s, (making, when coi..r --- — _ — = - - f n r ' familiarv acauainted with tliofe extraordinary and important Voyages and Difcoveries, in the Performance and Froiccution . , , . . pended.7 Therefore as“he Prke of7h i s wYk.s rendered fo 'moderate and eafy, the WhoU of Capt. COOK’S V O Y AG E S,&c. will be more umverial^ reai^and theobv.ou^Inteu- tion of the Kmc and Gov £ R N M e nt, that the Improvements and Difcoveries in thefe celebrated Voyages might he communicated^ o t e , ) The Whole of thele Voyages ofcipt. COOK, F. R. S. Ac.. Now Publiftiing under the immediate Direction of GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, Esq. A [lilted by a Principal Officer who failed in the RES OLU TION SLOOP, And by many-other Gentlemen of the mod diftingpilhed Naval Abilities. ±* LONDON: printed for the Proprietors, and Publifhed by ALEX. HOGG, at the King s-Arms, No. 16, Pater-noJlei^Rcr^, and fold by all CookfeUers and News-Carriers in Great Britain, Ireland, isc.$

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