Saggio dell'opera Voyages autour du monde, o sia I viaggi di Cook, 1799-1805
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Title
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Saggio dell'opera Voyages autour du monde, o sia I viaggi di Cook, 1799-1805
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Subject
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Oceania--Discovery and exploration
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Discoveries in geography
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Voyages and travels
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Australia--Description and travel
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Explorers
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Italian language--Written Italian
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Category
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1. Settlement
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Author
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Bertacchi, Francesco
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Keywords
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Expedition
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Current holder
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National Library of Australia
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Period of reference
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1799 – 1805
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Series number
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MS Acc10.059
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Item number
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4902846
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Access rights
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Digitised
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Rights
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Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
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Language
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Italian
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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.).
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