A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty’s Sloop Resolution…[with] Observations made during a Voyage Round the World on Physical Geography, Natural History and Ethic Philosophy

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Author: Johann George Adam Forster (1754-1794) and Johann Reinhold Forster Year: 1777-1778 Publisher: Printed for B.White, J.Robson, P. Elmsly, and G.Robinson. Place: London Description: 3 volumes. A Voyage Round The World, In His Britannic Majesty s Sloop, Resolution: 2 volumes. xviii+602,+[1] pages with large folding map of the world ; [iv]+607 pages. Observations made during a Voyage Round the World iii+[9]-649+[1] pages with folding table of languages. Some copies of the Observations had the Pacific Islands map based on the Tahitian Tupaia's chart bound in; it has not been added to this copy. Royal quartos (11x8½") bound in contemporary marbled calf, morocco labels to spines lettered and tooled in gilt. (Beaglehole, II, pp. clii-cliii; Beddie, 1247, 1261; Hill, 625, 628; Hocken, p. 16-18; Holmes, 23, 29; Kroepelien, 450, 456; O'Reilly-Reitman, 382, 395, etc; Rosove, 132.A1.d, 140.A1; Spence, 464, 467) First Editions. Johann Georg Adam Forster was an influential German polymath, naturalist, geographer, ethnologist, travel writer, and political revolutionary. He is widely recognized as one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature and a progressive thinker who advocated for universal human equality. After the withdrawal of Joseph Banks, Johann Reinhold Forster was invited by the British Admiralty to join James Cook's second expedition to the Pacific (1772–75). Georg Forster joined his father in the expedition and was appointed as a draughtsman to his father. Jo

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