Lot 310
  • 310

COOK, CAPTAIN JAMES--PARKINSON, SYDNEY

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship the Endeavour. London: for Charles Dilly and James Phillips, 1784
  • paper
Second edition, 4to (327 x 265mm.), [ii], xxiv, 22, 4, 212, lxxi, 213-354pp., [ii pp. errata leaf and list of plates], engraved portrait, folding map, 27 plates, with the "Gomeldon" supplement of four separately printed pages containing letters justifying Stanfield Parkinson's dispute with Joseph Banks over the return of various shells and drawings, and a poem, red straight-grained morocco, gilt spine, double raised bands, marbled endpapers, gilt edges

Literature

BCJC 714; Forbes 82; Hill (2004) 1309; Holmes 49 Sabin 58788

Condition

A very good copy.
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Catalogue Note

This second edition is considerably enlarged from the first, published in 1773 (see lot 309), with much additional matter in the appendix and four rare additional pages, the "Gomeldon" supplement, described above.

Sydney Parkinson was employed by Sir Joseph Banks on Cook's first voyage as natural history draughtsman. He died at sea in 1771 and his brother, Stanfield, claimed his property from Banks and had them published despite an injunction. In the preface, actually written by William Kenrick, both Banks and Dr Fothergill, who had attempted to resolve the dispute, were written of disparagingly. This edition of 1784, published after Stanfield's death, includes a reply to the preface by Dr Fothergill. The new appendix in this edition includes an account of Cook's first visit to Kauai and his later stay at Hawaii, and the map issued in the first edition (cf. lot 309) has been revised to include the Hawaiian Islands.