*PARKINSON (Sydney). A journal of a voyage... - Lot 10 - Ader

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*PARKINSON (Sydney). A journal of a voyage... - Lot 10 - Ader
*PARKINSON (Sydney). A journal of a voyage to the South seas, In his Majesty's Ship The Endeavour : faithfully transcribed From the Papers of the late Sydney Parkinson, Draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. in his Expedition with Dr. Solander round the World. London: Charles Dilly, James Phillips, 1784. - In-4, shagreened calf, smooth spine decorated (early 19th century binding). Second edition of this account of Cook's first voyage, much enlarged compared to the first of 1773. Sydney Parkinson (c. 1745-1771) was a Scottish draftsman and painter . He was recommended by Joseph Banks to James Cook for his first voyage around the world. He made more than a thousand drawings and was the first European artist to paint Aborigines. Stricken with dysentery, he died in the Indian Ocean in 1771. It was the artist's brother, Stanfield Parkinson, who first published the Sydney journal in 1773. Dissatisfied with this edition, Dr. Fothergill bought back the unsold sheets to republish them and composed a 22-page response to Stanfield's preface. Fothergill died in 1780 and it was John Coakley Lettsom who prepared this second edition in which he added Fothergill's remarks to Stanfield's preface, enriched the text with Sydney Parkinson's journal, and added a summary of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Bougainville, as well as Cook's second and third voyages. The edition is illustrated with a portrait of Syndney Parkinson engraved by Newton, a double-page hemisphere map engraved by Samuel John Neele, a map of New Zealand engraved by B. Longmate, and 26 plates engraved on copperplate, mostly after Parkinson's drawings. Very rare copies also have another map of the world which is not included here. Copy complete with the errata leaf at the end but without the rare four-page Gomeldon supplement, which is very often missing. Binding in very poor condition, both boards are loose and the covers torn off. Corners dulled and spotted. The interior is well preserved despite scattered foxing. Transfer of the engravings to the facing leaves.
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