An historical account of all the voyages round the world, performed by English navigators
Subtitle: including those lately undertaken by order of His present Majesty. The whole faithfully extracted from the journals of the voyagers. Drake, undertaken in 1577-80; Cavendish, 1586-88; Crowley, 1683-86; Dampier, 1689-96; Cooke; 1708-11; Rogers, 1708-11; Clipperton and Shelvocke, 1719-22; Anson, undertaken in 1740-44; Byron, 1764-66; Wallis, 1766-68; Carteret, 1766-69; and Cook, 1768-71
Contributors: Newbery, F., publisher; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745?-1771; Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811
Publisher: F. Newbery ...
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Other titles: Voyages around the world; Supplement, containing the journal of a voyage ... by the Hon. Commodore Phipps.
Notes: (Title continued:) ...To gather with that of Sydney Parkinson ... and the voyage of Mons. Bougainville ... To which is added, an appendix. Containing the Journal of a voyage to the North pole, by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge ...

Vols. 3-4 dated 1773.

"The first two volumes were compiled by David Henry; the third and fourth by another hand; to which, in 1775, Mr. Henry added a fifth, containing Captain Cook's voyage in the Resolution; and in 1786, a sixth, containing the last voyage of Capt. Cook."--Halkett and Laing. The two last are usually not included in the set.

Appendix bound at end of v. 4; "Introduction" at head of v. 1.

The Appendix in entitled; Supplement, containing the journal of a voyage ... by the Hon. Commodore Phipps, and Captain Lutwidge ... To which is prefixed, an account of the several voyages undertaken for the discovery of a north-east passage to China and Japan. (xxviii, [29]-118 p. plates, 2 fold. maps).