{"subtitle": "undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere : to determine the position and extent of the west side of North America : its distance from Asia : and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe : performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780 ...", "lc_classifications": ["G420"], "latest_revision": 4, "contributions": ["King, James, 1750-1784", "Douglas, John, 1721-1807.", "Anderson, William, d. 1778", "Roberts, Richard", "Great Britain. Admiralty."], "source_records": ["marc:marc_university_of_toronto/uoft.marc:1074180427:3217"], "title": "A voyage to the Pacific Ocean", "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "subjects": ["Clerke, Charles, -- 1741-1779", "Gore, John, -- d. 1790", "Northwest Passage", "Northeast Passage", "Pacific Ocean", "Pacific Coast (North America)", "Oceania -- Description and travel"], "publish_country": "enk", "by_statement": "vol. I. and II. written by Captain James Cook ... ; vol. III. by Captain James King ...; illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut. Henry Roberts, under the direction of Captain Cook ; and with a great variety of portraits of persons, views of places, and historical representations of remarkable incidents, drawn by Mr. Webber during the voyage, and engraved by the most eminent artists.", "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "revision": 4, "publishers": ["Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ; printed by W. and A. Strahan; for G. Nicol ..., and T. Cadell ..."], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2010-08-03T08:25:56.055228"}, "key": "/books/OL17000955M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL21875A"}], "publish_places": ["London"], "pagination": "3 v. :", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-09-27T00:53:49.112431"}, "notes": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Edited by John Douglas.\n\nWith interpolations in v. 1 by William Anderson.\n\nPlates numbered 1-87, 63 of which, marked * in list of plates are bound separately in atlas.\n\nIncludes bibliographical references.\n\nFisher shel copy: Vol. 2, plates to face p. 258, 353, and 410 bound in to face p. 353, 411 and 258 respectively.\n\nFisher Knox copy: With the autograph of Richd. Roberts, Lambeth, 1784 in v. 1, prelim. p. [8]; and with the pictorial bookplate of Roberts, by the King's bargehouse near Lambeth Church on front pastedown of v. 3.  With the studio portrait of Albert [McWhinney?] on front pastedown of v. 1."}, "publish_date": "1784", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL83364W"}]}