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PROPERTY OF THE EARLS OF HAREWOOD
SYDNEY PARKINSON (1745-1771)
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SYDNEY PARKINSON (1745-1771)
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, In His Majesty's Ship The Endeavour... To which is now added, remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill... and an appendix containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron. London: for Charles Dilly and James Phillips, 1784. Large 4° (344 x 275mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Newton, 2 engraved maps (including a double-page double-hemisphere world map), 26 engraved plates after Parkinson. With the supplement of four separately numbered pages justifying Stanfield Parkinson's dispute with Joseph Banks over the return of various shells and drawings. (Lacking final blank, errata and 'Directions to the Binder' leaves, front free endpaper, portrait and title loose, light variable scattered spotting mostly affecting the first ten plates only.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers unevenly rubbed and detached, spine heavily worn with defective patches). Provenance: Edward, Lord Harewood (engraved armorial bookplate).
THE SECOND EDITION, 'CONSIDERED THE BEST' though less rare than the first edition (Hill). This edition is a much expanded version of the first edition and was edited by John Coakley Lettsom. It contains the following additions to the first edition: 'a two-page "advertisement" by Lettsom; Fothergill's "Explanatory remarks on the preface"; a new double-hemisphere world map; a resumé of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, and Bougainville; and an important early summary of Cook's second and third voyages.' Hill 1309; Holmes 49; Beddie 713; Sabin 58788.
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, In His Majesty's Ship The Endeavour... To which is now added, remarks on the preface, by the late John Fothergill... and an appendix containing an account of the voyages of Commodore Byron. London: for Charles Dilly and James Phillips, 1784. Large 4° (344 x 275mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait by J. Newton, 2 engraved maps (including a double-page double-hemisphere world map), 26 engraved plates after Parkinson. With the supplement of four separately numbered pages justifying Stanfield Parkinson's dispute with Joseph Banks over the return of various shells and drawings. (Lacking final blank, errata and 'Directions to the Binder' leaves, front free endpaper, portrait and title loose, light variable scattered spotting mostly affecting the first ten plates only.) Contemporary calf (worn, covers unevenly rubbed and detached, spine heavily worn with defective patches). Provenance: Edward, Lord Harewood (engraved armorial bookplate).
THE SECOND EDITION, 'CONSIDERED THE BEST' though less rare than the first edition (Hill). This edition is a much expanded version of the first edition and was edited by John Coakley Lettsom. It contains the following additions to the first edition: 'a two-page "advertisement" by Lettsom; Fothergill's "Explanatory remarks on the preface"; a new double-hemisphere world map; a resumé of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, and Bougainville; and an important early summary of Cook's second and third voyages.' Hill 1309; Holmes 49; Beddie 713; Sabin 58788.