The dangerous voyage of Capt. Thomas James
Subtitle: in his intended discovery of a North West passage into the South Sea : wherein the miseries indured [sic], both going, wintering and returning, and the rarities observ'd philosophical, mathematical and natural are related in this journal of it, publish'd by the special command of King Charles I : to which is added, a map for sailing in those seas : also divers tables of the author's of the variation of the compass, &c
By: with an appendix, concerning the longitude, by Master Gellibrand
Edition: 2nd ed., rev. and corr.
Publisher: Printed in 1633, and now reprinted for O. Payne ...
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Discovery and exploration
Notes: First published under title, "The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames." Cox II, p. 4 lists this 2nd edition, "said to be inferior to the original." Cf. Maggs 465.

James was forced by exceptionally bad weather to winter in the southern part of Hudson Bay. His account "contains some remarkable physical observations respecting the intensity of the cold and the accumulation of ice in northern latitudes."--Lowndes.

With woodcut head and tail pieces, initials.

Bound with Pointis, J.-B.D. An authentick and particular account of the taking of Carthagena. London, 1740.