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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [Vol. 1] : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ; its distance from Asia ; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S., Vol. III by Captain James King, L.L.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ... (3.60075)

Date: 1784
Creator: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Type: Book
Extent: 3 volumes : plates (some folded), maps (some folded) ; 30 x 23 cm + atlas. 58 cm

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [Vol. 2] : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ; its distance from Asia ; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S., Vol. III by Captain James King, L.L.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ... (3.60076)

Date: 1784
Creator: Cook, James, 1728-1779
Type: Book
Extent: 3 volumes : plates (some folded), maps (some folded) ; 30 x 23 cm + atlas. 58 cm

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [Vol. 3] : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ; its distance from Asia ; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S., Vol. III by Captain James King, L.L.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ... (3.60077)

Date: 1784
Creator: Cook, James, 1728-1779, King, James, 1750-1784
Type: Book
Extent: 3 volumes : plates (some folded), maps (some folded) ; 30 x 23 cm + atlas. 58 cm

Thirty-eight plates, with explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus's system of vegetables : and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany (3.60733)

Date: 1788
Creator: Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825., Nodder, Frederick Polydore.
Type: Book
Extent: vi, 72, [2] p., XXXVIII leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 22 cm (8vo)

A voyage to the Pacific Ocean [Atlas] : undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America ; its distance from Asia ; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 / Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S., Vol. III by Captain James King, L.L.D. and F.R.S. Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts ... with a great variety of portraits ... views ... and historical representations ... drawn by Mr. Webber ... Published by order of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty ... (3.61751)

Date: 1784
Creator: Cook, James, 1728-1779, King, James, 1750-1784
Type: Book
Extent: 3 volumes : plates (some folded), maps (some folded) ; 30 x 23 cm + atlas. 58 cm

Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences : to the end of the year M, DCC, LXXXIII. Vol. I. (3.62961)

Date: 1785
Creator: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Type: Book
Extent: xxxii, 568, [2] p., [6] folded leaves : ill., plates ; 29 cm. (4to)

Arctic zoology [Vol. 1] (3.65541)

Date: 1784 – 1785
Creator: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
Type: Book
Extent: 2 volumes (cc, 586 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 27 cm

Arctic zoology [Vol. 2] (3.65543)

Date: 1784 – 1785
Creator: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798.
Type: Book
Extent: 2 volumes (cc, 586 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 27 cm

On the periodical appearing and disappearing of certain birds, at different time of the year (3.66650)

Date: 1781
Type: Book
Description:This essay was first printed in the LXIId vol. of the Philosophical Transcactions ; but is now reprinted, with considerable additions.
Part of: Miscellanies by the Honourable Daines Barrington
Extent: pages 173-224 ; 27 cm

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