17
Cooke’s last voiage [the 3
d 1776-79] Anonymous.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 150, Cook’s last [3d] Voyage, 1776-9, anonymous, 8vo.
COOK,
James.
Journal of Captain Cook’s last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, on Discovery; performed in the Years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780, illustrated with
Cuts and Charts . . . A New Edition, compared with, and corrected from the Voyage published by Authority.
London:
E. Newbery,
1785.
8vo. 217 leaves, engraved maps and plates. No copy of this edition was available for collation.
Lowndes I, 515.
Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit.
British Museum Catalogue, 42, col. 356, 1045.e.6.
Not in Sabin.
Not in Holmes.
Not in New South Wales Public Library,
Bibliography of Captain James Cook.
Not in Welsh.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
6/-.
This edition, called for by the early Library of Congress catalogues which distinguish the Jefferson collection, is recorded
by Lowndes; and there is a copy in the British Museum. The title printed above was taken from these sources, and may not be
accurate. The edition seems to be unknown to other bibliographers. According to the British Museum catalogue, this edition
is a “new edition” of the
Journal
of Lieut. John Rickman, published by E. Newbery in 1781, and was by David Henry (1710-1792), the compiler of the
Historical Account of all the Voyages round the World
, 1774.
John Rickman was a Lieutenant on the
Resolution, and was one of the officers transferred to the
Discovery on the death of Captain Clerke on August 23, 1779. The
Journal is the printed version of the actual manuscript journal kept by him during the voyage. Captain Cook himself had been massacred
by the natives at Karakakoa Bay (Sandwich Islands) in February 1779, and upon the return of the ships to England in 1780 an
official order called for the surrender of all the journals of the expedition.
Jefferson mentioned the discoveries of Captain Cook in his
Notes on the State of Virginia:
. . . Again, the late discoveries of Captain Cook, coasting from Kamschatka to California, have proved that, if the two continents
of Asia and America be separated at all, it is only by a narrow streight. So that from this side also, inhabitants may have
passed into America: and the resemblance between the Indians of America and the Eastern inhabitants of Asia, would induce
us to conjecture, that the former are the descendants of the latter, or the latter of the former . . .
(page 180.)
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18
Ellis’s Narrative of Cooke’s [3
d.] voiage.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 151, Ellis’s Narrative of Cook’s [3d] Voyage, 2 v 8vo.
ELLIS,
William.
An authentic Narrative of a Voyage performed by Captain Cook and Captain Clerke, in His Majesty’s ships Resolution 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.
Including A faithful Account of all their Discoveries, and the unfortunate Death of Captain Cook. Illustrated with a Chart
and a Variety of Cuts. By W. Ellis, assistant surgeon to both vessels.
London: Printed for
G. Robinson,
J. Sewell, and
J. Debrett,
mdcclxxxiv
. [1784.]
Third Edition. 2 vol. 8vo. No copy was available for examination. The title quoted above is that of the first edition of 1782,
and may have inaccuracies for the third edition.
This edition not in Lowndes.
Sabin 22333.
This edition not in Holmes.
New South Wales Public Library,
Bibliography of Captain James Cook, page 67.
See also Wroth,
Notes for Bibliophiles in the New York
Herald Tribune, Book Section, February 12, 1939.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue with the price,
12/-.
