COOK, Captain James

Captain Cook's Voyages round the world...

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M. Brown, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1790. Two volumes, stout octavo, portrait frontispiece, folding map and 49 other engraved plates including folding "Death of Captain Cook"; some light offsetting, some slight browning or discolouration from poorish-quality paper; a very nice copy in contemporary tree calf, good old rebacking with double red & green leather labels. Extremely scarce provincially-printed abridgement of Cook's voyages, probably based on Anderson's text, but including extra material designed to attract a wider reading public including an important early abridgement of Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay, and an anonymous summary of information on the fauna of New South Wales, along with Constantine John Phipps' Journal of a voyage... to the North Pole.

The publication was issued in two different forms, either as two volumes or as four. Forbes gives a collation for the four-volume version which can be seen to differ in a few details from this two-volume version. Examples of both versions can be found in various libraries (see Forbes for listing).

The abridgement of Phillip's Voyage to Botany Bay is especially interesting and early. The full account of the voyage had been published in 1789. During 1790 second and third editions appeared as did two Irish pirated versions and this abridgement, which occupies eighty-three pages at the end of the work, and has its own title-page ("The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island"). It is followed by a 23-page section entitled "A Short Account of Animals in New South Wales", which includes an engraving of the animals of New South Wales - the squirrel opossum, the flying opossum and a "kanguroo" engraved by Ralph Beilby and Thomas Bewick, like most of the other plates in the book. Bewick was at this time apprenticed to Beilby. A few of the plates, including the "Death of Cook", are engraved by Lizars.

Ferguson knew only the Mitchell and National Library copies of the text as well as another in his own collection. Only the copy at the State Library of Western Australia has been added in the recent addenda volume.
Beddie, 44, 1574.

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