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PARKINSON, Sydney (1745-1771)

Lot 129
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 129 | PARKINSON, Sydney (1745-1771)
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
PARKINSON, Sydney (1745-1771)

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. London: printed for Charles Dilly, 1784.

Rare hand-coloured issue with wide-margins of the second edition: 'a much-expanded version of the 1773 edition: Because of the many additions, this is considered the best edition' (Hill). Parkinson had been appointed botanical draughtsman to the first voyage of Captain Cook by Sir Joseph Banks, and his 'unbounded industry' extended greatly the collection of drawings relating to the voyage. His untimely death at sea, however, led to an unfortunate controversy over the title to his papers and drawings between his brother, Stanfield Parkinson, and Sir Joseph Banks. Stanfield’s publication threatened to pre-empt Hawkesworth's official account and the unpleasantness led to the exclusion of any mention of Parkinson in Hawkesworth's An Account of the Voyages ... for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere despite the fact that Hawkesworth drew on Parkinson's journals and reproduced some of Parkinson's drawings. This second edition was put together by a friend of the Parkinsons' Dr. John Fothergill (1712-80). He included a four-page supplement seeking to justify the dispute between Parkinson's brother, Stanfield, and Sir Joseph Banks. In addition Fothergill included an 'Explanatory remarks on the preface ... a new double-hemisphere world map, a resumé of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Bougainville, and an important early summary of Cook's second and third voyages. Although this edition is often described as large paper, all copies of this edition are in the same format with wide margins. Bobins V, 1459; BCJC 714; Hill 1309; Holmes 49; Kroepelien 945; Sabin 58788



Large quarto (342 x 262mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Parkinson by James Newton, double-page engraved twin-hemispherical world map showing the tracks of Cook’s three voyages, and 27 numbered plates (including a map of New Zealand), the portrait and all the maps and plates all finely coloured by a contemporary hand (light marginal water staining on a few leaves, tiny worm trail in lower blank margin on a few leaves in second part, some light offsetting onto text, errata leaf restored). Contemporary tree calf, sides bordered with gilt roll (neatly rebacked, spine richly gilt, red morocco lettering piece).





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Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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