Astronomical Observation: Made in the Voyages which Were Undertaken ... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, Tamer, Swallow, and Endeavor |
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| Title | Astronomical Observation: Made in the Voyages which Were Undertaken ... for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook in the Dolphin, Tamer, Swallow, and Endeavor |
| Author | William Wales |
| Publisher | C. Buckton, 1788 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Apr 11, 2011 |
| Length | 150 pages |
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