Name/TitleAn Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere – 3 Volumes
About this objectOfficial account of Captain James Cook’s first voyage and the discovery of eastern Australia. Cook’s voyage occupies volumes 2 and 3; the first volume contains the official accounts of the voyages of Byron, Wallis and Carteret, with the result that Hawkesworth’s compendium contains the cream of eighteenth-century English exploration.
This second edition is complete with the chart of the Strait of Magellan and the list of plates (missing in many copies of the first edition) and contains some extra material in the form of a new preface in which Hawkesworth replies to the charges of poor editing made against him by Dalrymple.
From the library of Sir Ashton Lever with his bookplate in each volume. Lever (1729-1788) was the great natural history collector whose private museum (known as the ‘Holuphusikon’, or more simply, the Leverian Museum) contained many shells collected on the Cook voyages, mostly purchased by him from the natural history dealer Humphrey. At the sixty-five day sale of the Museum’s contents in 1806, some of these specimens collected in the Pacific brought spectacular prices. See S.P. Dance, (Leiden, 1986), pp. 77-79.
MakerJames Cook - Author
Maker RoleAuthor
MakerThomas Cadell and W Davies - Publisher
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Date Made1773
Period18th century
Place MadeLondon, United Kingdom
Medium and MaterialsPaper and ink
Measurements295mm x 245mm
Object TypeBooks
Object numberSF000019
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The mug is decorated with an underglaze and a blue transfer print. On the body, it is titled ‘Emigrants to Australia’. This type of body and glaze was discontinued by 1840. Comparison of the handle shape and the profile of the foot, point to the attribution of manufacture by the Davenport Factory.
Delta was a ship-rigged vessel with two decks and three masts. It was built in Dordrecht, Netherlands in 1839 at the shipyard of Jan Schouten and registered in the same port. Its hull was constructed of oak and sheathed in ‘yellow metal’. Delta was owned by H. van der Sande at the time of its loss and was engaged as a cargo trader.
The Delta carried 29 crew and passengers, while sailing from Melbourne to Batavia in ballast when wrecked at Kenn Reefs on 30 May 1854 whilst under the command of Captain J.G. Kunst. This vessel loss supports the pattern of shipwrecks located on a well-travelled shipping route that was poorly charted until the mid-nineteenth century. The crew of the Delta could see four other shipwrecks at Kenn Reefs at the time of their vessel’s loss.
Important image of a ship associated with Matthew Flinders, that would shortly become one of the most famous early shipwrecks in eastern Australian waters. This is a fine ship’s portrait, by one of the great exponents of the art