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A voyage to the Pacific Ocean. : 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 Norther 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. In three volumes. / Vol. I and II written by Captain James Cook, F.R.S. ; vol. III by Captain James King, LL. D. and F.R.S. ; Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lier. Henry Roberts, under the direction of Captain Cook : ; and with a great variety of portraits of persons, views of places, and historical representations of remarkable incidents, drawn by Mr. Webber during the voyage, and engraved by the most eminent artists.
An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. : Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet belonging to the Honourable East India Company. / By George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A..