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SYDNEY PARKINSON (1745-1771)
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. London: for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. 4° (335 x 269mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved map of the coast of New Zealand, and 26 further engraved plates, with two-page errata leaf. (Plates lightly offset as usual, some sporadic light fine spotting to text and very occasionally to plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, red morocco label to spine (upper cover rubbed with slight loss to leather at fore-edge, head-cap rubbed). Provenance: Baroness Keith, Meiklour House (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. A CRISP, HANDSOME COPY WITH GENEROUS MARGINS. Parkinson embarked aboard HMS Endeavour as Sir Joseph Banks's botanical artist, but died in January 1771 on the homeward leg of this Cook's first voyage. Banks spoke highly of Parkinson's 'unbounded industry' and the young artist's journal remains the finest personal account of Cook's first voyage, with valuable South-Sea vocabularies and the first published use of the word kangaroo (p.149). On HMS Endeavour's return a bitter dispute arose between Parkinson's brother Stanfield and Banks as to the ownership of Parkinson's personal papers and drawings. As a result the publication of this edition was halted by an injunction which prevented further copies from being sold until Hawkesworth's official account of the voyage had been published. Hill 1308; Beddie 712, Hocken, pp12-13; Holmes 7; cf. Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography I, 82.
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's ship, the Endeavour. London: for Stanfield Parkinson, 1773. 4° (335 x 269mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved map of the coast of New Zealand, and 26 further engraved plates, with two-page errata leaf. (Plates lightly offset as usual, some sporadic light fine spotting to text and very occasionally to plates.) Contemporary calf gilt, red morocco label to spine (upper cover rubbed with slight loss to leather at fore-edge, head-cap rubbed). Provenance: Baroness Keith, Meiklour House (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. A CRISP, HANDSOME COPY WITH GENEROUS MARGINS. Parkinson embarked aboard HMS Endeavour as Sir Joseph Banks's botanical artist, but died in January 1771 on the homeward leg of this Cook's first voyage. Banks spoke highly of Parkinson's 'unbounded industry' and the young artist's journal remains the finest personal account of Cook's first voyage, with valuable South-Sea vocabularies and the first published use of the word kangaroo (p.149). On HMS Endeavour's return a bitter dispute arose between Parkinson's brother Stanfield and Banks as to the ownership of Parkinson's personal papers and drawings. As a result the publication of this edition was halted by an injunction which prevented further copies from being sold until Hawkesworth's official account of the voyage had been published. Hill 1308; Beddie 712, Hocken, pp12-13; Holmes 7; cf. Forbes Hawaiian National Bibliography I, 82.