MBA | Cook.- Magra, Journal of a Voyage round the World, Dublin 1772.

Lot 50. [MAGRA, James.]

A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour,

£1000 - £1500

A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in His Majesty’s Ship Endeavour, 98442
in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; undertaken in Pursuit of natural Knowledge, … with Descriptions of several new discovered Countries in the Southern Hemisphere; … To which is added, a concise Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee.
Dublin, printed for J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts [and 4 others], 1772

Very rare. The first Irish book concerning Australia, the earliest printed account of Cook’s First Voyage and the discovery of the east coast of Australia in its Dublin printing. ESTC lists only BL, LOC, UCLA, National Library of Australia, New South Wales (2 copies), and Tasmania. This edition contains the dedication to Bankes and Solander, indicating that it was prepared from the earlier London issue, as this dedication was suppressed in the second.

12mo, [iv], 193, [vii] pp., contemporary calf, green label, lightly rubbed, corners worn else a fine copy.

[Beddie, 695; Kroepelian, 216. ]

Lot 50. [MAGRA, James.]

A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour,

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