16
Hawkesworth’s acc
t. of Byron’s, Wallace’s, Carteret’s, & Cooke’s [2
d.] voiages.
4. v.
8
vo.
.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 149, as above.
HAWKESWORTH,
John.
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,
and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph
Banks, Bart. By John Hawkesworth, LL.D. In
Four Volumes. Illustrated with Cuts and Charts, relative to Countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known. The
Third Edition. Vol. I. [-IV.]
London: Printed for
W. Strahan; and
T. Cadell,
m dcc lxxxv
. [1785.]
G420 .C65 H3 1785
4 vol. 8vo. 216, 228, 212 and 220 leaves, including first or last blanks, folded engraved map and plates, some unsigned, others
signed by J. Hall, Bannerman, and Will. Bryan; the preliminary matter in Vol. I contains
An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally understood which occur in this Work (8 leaves), followed by a leaf with
Directions for Placing the Cuts on the recto and an advertisement on the verso, 3 pages of publishers’ advertisements at the end of Vol. IV.
This edition not in Lowndes, not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit., not in Holmes and not in New South Wales Public Library,
Bibliography of Captain James Cook.
Sabin 30939.
Similarly entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
24/-.
John Hawkesworth, 1715?-1773, English miscellaneous writer, was appointed in 1777 by Lord Sandwich, the First Lord of the Admiralty, to revise
and publish the accounts of the voyages to the South Seas of the commanders named on the title-page. The book was originally
published in 1773, and contained the first printing of these accounts. The introduction by Hawkesworth met with such severe
criticism that its author was deeply affected and died in the same year, either from a low fever, or, as has been suggested,
by a deliberately taken overdose of opium.
Vice-Admiral John Byron, fourth Lord Byron, and great-grandfather of the poet, 1723-1786, was appointed to the
Dolphin in 1764. The voyage to the South Seas started from Plymouth on July 2, and returned to England on May 9, 1766.
Samuel Wallis, 1728-1795, captain in the Royal Navy, succeeded Byron as commander of the
Dolphin in June 1766, and sailed from Plymouth on August 22, accompanied by the
Swallow, commanded by Philip Carteret. The two ships separated in the Pacific in April 1767. Wallis opened out a part of the ocean
hitherto unknown, and discovered the islands of the Low Archipelago and the Society Islands. He returned by the Cape of Good
Hope and arrived in the Downs on May 18, 1768.
Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret, d. 1796, was lieutenant of the
Dolphin under John Byron, and later became commander of the
Swallow on its voyage with Samuel Wallis in the
Dolphin. He separated from the
Dolphin in the Straits of Magellan, and on July 2, 1767, discovered Pitcairn’s Island, which in 1790 was occupied by the mutineers
of H. M. S.
Bounty. He discovered and named a number of islands and eventually arrived back in England on March 20, 1769.
James Cook, 1728-1779, was commissioned on May 25, 1768, and appointed to command the
Endeavour on an expedition to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus, requested of the Admiralty by the Royal Society. The
Endeavour sailed from Plymouth on August 25, 1768, and carried also (by permission of Lord Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty),
Joseph (afterwards Sir Joseph) Banks, who was later to become the President of the Royal Society, Dr. Solander [q.v.] and
others. The voyage lasted almost three years, and the
Endeavour landed at Deal on May 6, 1771.
For
Sir Joseph Banks, see the Index.
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