Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook
Dublin Core
Title
Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook
Subject
James Cook Travels to Oceania; Textile fabrics in Oceania; Sea voyages in 18th century
Description
Contains 56 samples of cloth.
Unnumbered leaves consist of 27 pages of cloth intermixed with 12 blank leaves of paper and 5 additional leaves of paper with a total of 29 additional cloth samples affixed to them.
Unnumbered leaves consist of 27 pages of cloth intermixed with 12 blank leaves of paper and 5 additional leaves of paper with a total of 29 additional cloth samples affixed to them.
Creator
Alexander Shaw, bookseller.
Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, associated name.
Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, associated name.
Source
A catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern Hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas : partly extracted from Mr. Anderson and Reinhold Forster's observations, and the verbal account of some of the most knowing of the navigators : with some anecdotes that happened to them among the natives.
Other titles: Cook's voyages, specimens of cloth
Other titles: Cook's voyages, specimens of cloth
Publisher
London: Now properly arrainged printed for Alexander Shaw, No. 379, Strand
Date
1787
Rights
In the collection of the James Ford Bell Library. University of Minnesota. Bell Call # 1787 Ca
Format
8 pages, 44 unnumbered leaves ; 24 cm
Language
English
Identifier
Shelf-marker 1787 Ca
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook
Citation
Alexander Shaw, bookseller.
Johann Reinhold Forster, 1729-1798, associated name. , “Cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook,” Gallery, accessed November 8, 2026, https://gallerytemp.reclaim.hosting/items/show/6348.