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Voyage in search of La P�erouse , performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, and drawn up by M. Labillardiere, Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, Member of the Society of Natural History, and One of the Naturalists Attached to the Expedition. Translated from the French. Illustrated with Forty-Six Plates.
Labillardi�ere, Jacques-Julien, 1755-1834.Date: 1800- E-books
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A cruising voyage round the world first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711. Containing A Journal of all the remarkable Transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca Ship, and other Prizes: An Account of Alexander Selkirk's living alone four Years and four Months in an Island; and a brief Description of several Countries in our Course noted for Trade, especially in the South-Sea. With maps of all the Coast, from the best Spanish Manuscript Draughts. And an Introduction relating to the South-Sea Trade. By Captain Woodes Rogers, Commander in Chief in this Expedition, with the Ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol.
Rogers, Woodes, d. 1732.Date: M.DCC.XVIII. [1718]- E-books
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Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland . From the dissolution of the last parliament of Charles II. until the sea-battle off La Hogue. By Sir John Dalrymple, Bart.
Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- E-books
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Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland . From the dissolution of the last Parliament of Charles II. until the sea-battle off La Hogue. By Sir John Dalrymple, Bart.
Dalrymple, John, Sir, 1726-1810.Date: M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]- E-books
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An authentic narrative of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean: performed by Captain Cook, and Captain Clerke , in his Britannic Majesty's ships, the Resolution, and Discovery, in the years, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780. Including, a faithful account of all their discoveries in this last voyage, the unfortunate death of Captain Cook, at the island of O-why-ee, and the return of the ships to England under Captain Gore. Also a large introduction, exhibiting, an account of the several voyages round the globe; with an abstract of the principal expeditions to Hudson's Bay, for the discovery of a north-west-passage. By an officer on board the Discovery. Volume the first[-second].
Rickman, JohnDate: M,DCC,LXXXIII. [1783]