An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern hemisphere
Subtitle: and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour : in three volumes
By: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq; by John Hawkesworth ...
Contributors: Byron, John, 1723-1786.
Publisher: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand
Published: 1773
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800.; Patagonians -- Early works to 1800.; Giants -- Early works to 1800.; Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Cook's first voyage
Notes: First edition in quarto.

Errors in paging: v. 1, page after p. 138 is numbered 139-360; v. 2, p. 189 misnumbered 191.

"MS. note on p.139-360 of a B.L. copy states that the first voyage in this volume, that of Commodore Byron, was intended as the third voyage in the collection but was placed as the first voyage; this seems to account for the peculiar pagination of p.139."--ESTC.

Pagination and register continuous in vols. 2 and 3 (cf. ESTC); v. 2 paged [1]-410; v. 3 paged [411]-799.

Charts, plans and views unnumbered; illustrative plates numbered 1-23 (1-12, 17-18 in v. 2; 13-16, 19-20 in v. 3; 21-23 in v. 1). Plate 21 misnumb: "22"; pl. 22 misnumb: "23"; pl. 23 misnumb.: "21".

Errata (v. 1: p. xxxvi, [xxxvii]-[xxxix], 3rd count; v. 2: p. [1], 2nd count).

All four accounts of voyages with several chapters on South America.

ESTC (RLIN) T074465.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, 3:1863.

Bib. Captain James Cook 648.

Du Rietz, R.  Bib. Polynesiana, 535.

Holmes, M.  Captain James Cook 5

Library's copy signed Wm. Z. Mulvaney (?), 1843, and with bookplate of John James Diggs La Touche, undated.
Table of contents: value: An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXIV, MDCCLXV, and MDCCLXVI / by the Honourable Commodore Byron, in His Majesty's ship The Dolphin (v.1: p. [1]-139/360. 7 plates. (the sixth plate numbered "23", error for "22"); value: An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVI, MDCCLXVII, and MDCCLXVIII / by Samuel Wallis, Esq; commander of His Majesty's ship The Dolphin (v.1: p. [2-3], 5th count, [363]-522. 5 plates (the first plate numbered "21", error for "23", and the second plate numbered "22", error for "21"); value: An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVI, MDCCLXVII, MDCCLXVIII, and MDCCLXIX / by Philip Carteret, Esquire, commander of His Majesty's sloop The Swallow (v.1: p. [523]-676, 9 plates); value: An account of a voyage round the world, in the years MDCCLXVIII, MDCCLXIX, MDCCLXX, and MDCCLXXI / by Lieutenant James Cook, commander of His Majesty's bark The Endeavour (v.2: p. [ix]-xv, [1], 2nd count, [1]-410, 3rd count. 22 plates, including plates 1-12, 17-18; v.3: p. [411]-799. 9 plates, including plates. 13-16, 19-20).