A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.

£11,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An excellent set of this important collection which was compiled to complement Hawkesworth and the two other Cook voyages, the whole to comprise a complete account of Pacific exploration. Hill states that “many of the voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not… [here] collected” calling the work the “most important general history of early South Sea discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the subject…” Hill, 221; Sabin, 9387; Ferguson, 372.

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