Phipps A Voyage Towards

Cook, Captain James (Bewick, Thomas,: Beilby, William [illustrated by]): Captain Cook's Voyages: Captain Cook's Second and Third Voyages. Volumes II & III of III volume set, Newcastle upon Tyne M. Brown

Leather cover Boards with wear to edges. Front board to volume 2 is loose and front board to volume 3 is detached. Pagination is not consecutive. Contents clean and binding tight Reprint 1022pp :: 17 pages of wood engravings to Volume II. & 26 wood engravings to Volume III :: 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5") :: To which is added ... Journal of a Voyage undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries Towards the North Pole, by the Hon Commodore Phipps, and Captain, Lutwidge, in his Majesty's Sloops Racehorse and Carcase. To which is prefixed, An Account of the Several Voyages undertaken for the Discovery of a North- East Passage to China and Japan. To which is added.. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island.Volume 2, contains the remaining part of Cook's first voyage ( starting at page 675 - 691) Followed by - Captain Cook's Second Voyage, Commenced in 1772, and finished in 1775, in his Majesty's Ships The Resolution and Adventure. Including Capt. Furneaux's Journal of his Proceedings in the Adventure, During the Separation of the two Ships (695 - 1022). Followed by Captains Cook's Third Voyage, no title page ( 3 - 302) in this volume. Volume III, title page - Voyages Round the World, for making Discoveries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, containing a relation of all the Interesting Transactions which occurred in the course of the Voyages. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean; Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, For Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere: Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore. In the years 1776 -1780. Volume II. Continuation of Cook's Third voyage starting at page 303 to 779. Also containing a chapter headed - Short Account of Animals in New South Wales English

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PHIPPS, Constantine John. With Nelson on board! A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774.
First edition of this interesting journal on the author's expedition to the North Pole to attempt the discovery of a northern route to India, by Constantine John Phipps, Baron Mulgrave (1744-1792). The Phipps-Lutwidge Expedition comprised two ships, the Racehorse, commanded by Phipps, and the Carcass commanded by Lutwidge with Nelson on board as a midschipman! Proposed by the Earl of Sandwich as the first British attempt to reach the North Pole since 1615, the voyage was sponsored by the Royal Society and encouraged by George III. Captain C. Phipps was in command of the expedition and fitted it in the most complete manner, including the thermometer designed by Lord Cavendish for measuring the temperature of water and Dr. Irving's successful apparatus for distilling fresh water from the sea. Amongst other previously unsuccessful efforts by both the British and the French to distill sea water were those of Mr. Appleby in 1734, and later separate efforts by Dr. Stephen Hales and James Lind. Dr. Irving's method, described in detail in the appendix of this volume and diagrammed in plate 14 opposite page 222, produced medicaly acceptable and palatable drinking water.The expedition reached 80 minutes 48 seconds North latitude, but further progress was blocked by ice. Numerous scientific observations along the ice barrier at Spitsbergen were made, but the sought-for channel through Greenland could not be found. The appendix contains these observations and descriptions of scientific instruments used on the voyage. A second edition was published in 1775 in Dublin, a third in Philadelphia in 1810. In 1978 the work was republished. The journal was also translated into French in 1775 and into German in 1777.
Fine copy with the ex-libris of George Finch.
Chavanne, <I>Die Literatur über die Polar-Regionen der Erde</I>, 1944 (slightly different title), 1943 (French ed.) and 1945 (German ed.); Greely, <I>Geschiedenis van het Poolonderzoek</I>, p. 183; <I>DNB</I> 45, pp. 231-2.

Large 4to. Contemporary full marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges. With 16 large engraved double-page and folding, partly numbered plates: 2 large folding engraved maps, one (225 x 460 mm) of the track of the expedition engraved by W. Palmer, and one (265 x 565 mm) of the course of the Racehorse, engraved by J. Russell, 2 folding engraved plates (Nr. 2, 250 x 225 mm. and Nr. 4, 50 x 430 mm) with several coastlines, one by P. D' Auvergne, the other by Cleveley; 3 double-page engraved plates of the Racehorse and Carcass, one by Pouncy, another by P.C. Canot; one double-page engraved plate of an iceberg by W. Byrne (Nr. 7); one folding plan of Fair Haven, engraved by Cheevers (Nr. 8), designed by P. D'Auvergne, 3 folding plates (265 x 350, 215 x 325 and 150 x 310 mm) of scientific instruments (one: Nr. 11), one folding plate of geometrical figures (Nr. 10), 2 folding plates of sea animals (Nr. 12) and shells (Nr. 13), engraved by J. Caldwall, after the design by Barnes and one double-page plate of the apparatus for making fresh water (Nr. 14); many printed tables of which 11 folding in the text. VIII, 253 pp.

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Mulgrave, Constantine John Phipps, . A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command, 1773. . Printed for Messrs. Sleater, , Unknown
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Commissioning organisation: By Constantine John Phipps. ~ viii, 275 p. incl. tables (part fold.) front.( fold. map) fold. pl.. 21 cm. ANTIQUARIAN Good copy with slightly faded gilt cross bands and title on spine, binding remains strong but hinges a , Unknown , USED, GOOD

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