# 41536
COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781
[COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :
$800.00 AUD
hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges rubbed), edges speckled red, half-title with light water stain and small paper repair, pp [24], 366, [10]; a few occasional spots, a very good copy. Text in Swedish. Printed privilege to Gustav III, preface by the printer Edman, and an anonymous preface dated Anianpeldo (modern day Asikkala, Finland), on December 1, 1782.
Swedish translation of A Voyage towards the South Pole … [London, 1777], the official account of Cook’s second voyage.
Copies are held in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales).
Beddie 1227 (miscollating the preliminaries as 20 rather than 24).
