“ agreed with certain Moors to conduct him to Sennar--The time for their departure was arrived when he found himself Ill and
took a large dose of emetic Tartar, burst a blood vessel in the operation which carried him off in three days . . .””
[3940]
20
Cooke’s last [3
d.] voiage. [publ
d. by Government]
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 120, no. 152, Cooke’s last [3d] Voyage, 4 v 8vo [published by Government].
COOK,
James.
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere; performed
under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Being a copious, comprehensive and satisfactory abridgement
of the Voyage written by Captain James Cook . . . and Captain James King . . . Illustrated with cuts.
London:
John Stockdale;
Scatcherd and Whitaker;
John Fielding and
John Hardy,
1784.
4 vol. 8vo. 196, 186, 206 and 192 leaves, 2 engraved maps and 49 plates. No copy was available for examination.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price
27/6.
It is not absolutely certain that this was the edition in Jefferson’s library and sold by him to Congress. The entries in
Jefferson’s manuscript catalogues and in the Library of Congress Catalogue of 1815, omitted from the later catalogues, are the only information available.
Two authentic editions in four volumes, octavo, were published, with the permission of the Admiralty, the one by Stockdale
as above in 1784, and an edition with the same collation in the following year by John Fielding, also in London.
Jefferson bought maps from the Atlas of Plates from Stockdale, to whom he wrote from Paris on September 26, 1785: “
Th: Jefferson will be obliged to m(
~
r)
Stockdale to send him by the bearer, Col
o. Franks, the following plates of Cook’s last voiage.
|
Plate. 1.
|
The general map.
|
|
36.
|
Map of the N. W. coast of America & of the coast of Asia.
|
|
53.
|
Map of the entry of Norton & the streight of Bhering.
|
"
he means to put these maps into his American Atlas . . .”
It seems more logical to suppose that Jefferson, who started buying from Stockdale as soon as he arrived in Paris, would have
the edition of the latter, rather than that of Fielding, though this cannot be stated with absolute certainty.
Not in Lowndes. Not in the Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit. Sabin 16251. British Museum Catalogue 42, col. 344. 10025. bbb. 22.
Not in Holmes. New South Wales. [punct.
sic.--
Ed.] Public Library,
Bibliography of Captain James Cook, page 65.
Charles Clerke, 1741-1779, captain in the Royal Navy, sailed as a midshipman on the
Dolphin with Commodore the Hon. John Byron in his voyage round the world, 1764-1766 (see Hawkesworth, no. 3936). He accompanied Captain
Cook on each of his three voyages, on the first as master’s mate to the
Endeavour, on the second as lieutenant of the
Resolution, and on the third as commander of the
Discovery. On the death of Captain Cook on February 14, 1779, Clerke succeeded to the command of the expedition, but died of consumption
at Avatcha Bay on August 22, 1779.
John Gore, d. 1790, sailed on the
Resolution as first lieutenant, took command of the
Discovery after the death of Cook and Clerke’s transfer to the
Endeavour, and later returned to the
Resolution when Captain King took command of the
Discovery.
James King, 1750-1784, was appointed to the
Resolution as second lieutenant in 1776 in command of the astronomical observations to be made on the voyage. At the time of Cook’s
death King was on shore, taking sights, but was later rescued. On the death of Captain Charles Clerke, King took command of
the
Discovery. King assisted in preparing Cook’s journal of the third voyage for the press, and himself wrote the third volume.
[3941]
