Author: RICHARD MARQUESS OF WELLESLEY. [Captain James Cook].
Title: Prinitiae Et Reliquiae.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. [iv], 58 (Primitiae), 20 (Reliquiae); bound in plain boards with papered spine, inscribed to Sir John Williams (Possible the English Judge) by the author on front free endpaper, bookplate on front endpaper along with some notations in ink, binding weak but contents excellent, together with the rare 12 page Addenda issued separately, good copy. London; Typis Gulielmi Nicol; 1840. Beddie. 2477. Page 53-8 "In Obitum Viri Eximii Et Celeberrimi Navigatoris Jacobi Cook" A footnote to page 53 states "When this Poem was written, the particular circumstance of Captain Cook s Death, especially his having fallen in the act of checking his crew, who were preparing to fire on the Natives of Owhyhee . were unknown in Europe otherwise they would have furnished ample materials for the conclusion of the Poem ."

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