An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, ...
by Hawkesworth, John
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About This Item
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1785.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Four volumes. I: [xii], liii, [ii], 362pp.; II: [viii], 447pp.; III: [viii], 416pp.; IV: [vi], 429, [iii]pp. I: A8, a8-c8, d2, B8-Z8, Aa6 (Aa6 blank); II: []4, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ff8; III: []4, B8-Z8, Aa8-Dd8; IV: []3, B8-Z8, Aa8-Ee8. Third edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With 2 folding maps and 9 folding plates. Beddie 665; ESTC T165111.
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- Bookseller
- Sam Gatteno Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1984
- Title
- An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, ...
- Author
- Hawkesworth, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Publisher
- London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1785.
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- Eighteenth Century Books;
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- Calf
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