Saggio dell'opera Voyages autour du monde, o sia I viaggi di Cook, 1799-1805
Item
- Title
- Saggio dell'opera Voyages autour du monde, o sia I viaggi di Cook, 1799-1805
- Subject
- Oceania--Discovery and exploration
- Discoveries in geography
- Voyages and travels
- Australia--Description and travel
- Explorers
- Italian language--Written Italian
- Category
- 1. Settlement
- Author
- Bertacchi, Francesco
- Keywords
- Expedition
- Person
- Cook, James
- Lapérouse, Jean François de Galaup
- d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni
- Current holder
- National Library of Australia
- Period of reference
- 1799 – 1805
- Series number
- MS Acc10.059
- Item number
- 4902846
- Access rights
- Digitised
- Rights
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Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
- Language
- Italian
- Description from source
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0.03 m. (1 v.) MS Acc10.059 comprises a 436-page monograph in Italian on Captain James Cook's three voyages. Based on the Paris edition of Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard's translation of Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. Consists of title page, four-page note to the reader, five-page introduction, chapters on each of Cook's voyages, and a "Note del compilatore questo saggio". In the final chapter Bertacchi gives his own notes on the voyages and subsequent history in the Pacific, making reference to a wide range of other sources, and including discussions of the voyages of Malaspina, La Perouse and d'Entrecasteaux, which were modelled on those of Cook (1 v.).
- Physical format
- Manuscripts