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[Title page - no illus.] – Historic Print

[Title page - no illus.] — historic print
[Title page - no illus.]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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[Title page - no illus.] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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This is the title page of a book rather than a picture, and its text is the point. It introduces an account of James Cook's Pacific voyages, which John Hawkesworth compiled from the journals of the expedition's commanders. The imprint names William Aikman and dates the printing to 1774, but the record lists both New York and Annapolis, so the place of printing is uncertain. Cook's first voyage, from 1768 to 1771, charted much of the Pacific and drew wide interest on both sides of the Atlantic, and this reissue shows how eagerly those accounts circulated in the colonies before the Revolution.

Medium1 print.
Notes1774
SubjectsIllus. in: John Hawkesworth, comp., A New Voyage, Round the World... by Captain James Cook..., N.Y., Printed for William Aikman at Annapolis, 1774, vol. 1, title page. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Discovery...; BI--WORKS; BI--Travels; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan923 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133840

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