A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by Royal authority
Subtitle: containing a new, authentic, entertaining, instructive, full, and complete historical account of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages ... : to which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English circum-navigators, &c. ... : the whole comprehending a full account, from the earliest period to the present time, of whatever is curious, entertaining, and useful, both by sea and land, in the various countries of the known world, faithfully extracted from the original journals of the respective voyagers, &c. &c. &c. : being the most accurate, elegant, and perfect edition, of the whole of Capt. Cook's voyages and discoveries, &c. ever published, and written in a more pleasing and elegant stile than any other work of the kind : illustrated with ... upwards of one hundred and fifty copper-plates, containing about two hundred and twenty most elegant and superb engravings ...
By: the whole of these voyages of Capt. James Cook, &c. being newly written by the editors from the authentic journals of several principal officers and other gentlemen of the most distinguished naval and philosophical abilities, who sailed in the various ships, and now publishing under the immediate direction of George William Anderson, Esq. ...
Publisher: Printed for Alex. Hogg ...
Published: 1781
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 655
Subjects: Voyages around the world; Discovery and exploration; Tahitian language; Glossaries, vocabularies
Notes: Frontispiece dated 1781.

"... published in only eighty six-penny numbers, making, when completed, either one or two very large handsome volumes in folio ..."

Printed in double columns.

Tail-pieces.

"A table of the language used by the natives of the Society Isles, in grammatical order, to which is affixed an explanation of their meaning in English": p. 204-211.

New South Wales.  Public Library, Sydney.  Mitchell Library.  Bibliography of Captain James Cook, p. [7]