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  • Artificial curiosities from the northwest coast of America : native American artefacts in the British Museum collected on the third voyage of Captain James Cook and acquired through Sir Joseph Banks / J.C.H. King.

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    • London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, 1981.
    • 1981
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  • Letters on Iceland: containing observations on the civil, literary, ecclesiastical, and natural history; antiquities, volcanos, basaltes, hot springs; customs, dress, manners of the inhabitants, &c. &c. made, during a voyage undertaken in the year 1772, by Joseph Banks, assisted by Dr. Solander, Dr. J. Lind, Dr. Uno von Troil, and several other literary and ingenious gentlemen. Written by Uno von Troil. To which are added the letters of Dr. Ihre and Dr. Bach [i.e. Bäck] to the author, concerning the Edda and the elephantiasis of Iceland: also Professor Bergman's curious observations and chemical examination of the lava and other substances produced on the island. With a new map of the island, and a represtation of the remarkable boiling fountain called by the inhabitants geyser.

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    • London, Printed by and for W. Richardson [etc.] 1780.
    • 1780
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  • Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté britannique ... pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphere méridional, et successivement exécutés par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour: rédigée d'après les journaux tenus par les différens commandans & les papiers de m. Banks, par J. Hawkesworth ... et enrichie de figures, & d'un grand nombre de plans & de cartes ... Tr. de l'anglois ...

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    • Paris, Saillant et Nyon; Panckoucke, 1774.
    • 1774
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  • An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere. And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Sir Joseph Banks, bart. By John Hawkesworth ... Illustrated with cuts and charts, relative to countries now first discovered, or hitherto but imperfectly known.

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    • London, W. Strahan [etc.] 1785.
    • 1785
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  • Voyages autour du monde entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté britannique, actuellement regnante, pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphere austral. Executés successivement par le chef d'escadre Byron, les capitaines Wallis, Carteret, & Cooke, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, l'Hirondelle & l'Endeavour / rédigée par m. Jean Hawkesworth sur les journaux tenus par les divers commandans & d'après les papiers de mr. Joseph Banks, ouvrage enrichi de figures, & d'un grand nombre de plans & de cartes relatives aux pays qui ont été nouvellement découverts, ou qui n'étoirent qu'imparfaitement connus. Traduit de l'anglois.

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    • Amsterdam : Chez E. van Harrevelt, D. J. Changuion ; Rotterdam : Chez Henry Beman; Bennet et Hake, 1774.
    • 1774
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    Text KBC+ (Hawkesworth, J. Voyages autour du monde)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Letters from the Hon. David Humphreys, F. R. S. to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks ... : containing some account of the serpent of the ocean, frequently seen in Gloucester bay.

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    • New York : Kirk & Mercein, 1817.
    • 1817
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  • Practical observations on the British grasses, : especially such as are best adapted to the laying down or improving of meadows and pastures: : likewise, an enumeration of the British grasses. / By William Curtis ...

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    • London: : Printed for H.D. Symonds ... and Curtis ..., 1805.
    • 1805
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  • Plants of the coast of Coromandel; selected from drawings and descriptions presented to the Hon. Court of Directors of the East India Company. Published by their order, under the direction of Sir Joseph Banks.

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    • London, Printed by Shakspeare Print. Off. for G. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, 1795-1819.
    • 1795-1819
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    Text MEM+++ R886rp (Roxburgh, W. Plants of the coast of Coromandel)Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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  • Letter from James Smithson to Sir Joseph Banks, from Hamburg, September 18, 1808, as a prisoner of war.

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    • [Palo Alto? Calif.] : White Knight Press, 1943.
    • 1943
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    Text DBA p.v. 181 no. 1-8Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Letters to Sir Joseph Banks ... on the subject of cochineal insects, discovered at Madras, by James Anderson ... With a copper plate annexed, of the different insects mentioned in the letters, from the drawings of Baron Reichel ...

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    • Madras, C. Ford, 1788.
    • 1788
  • Reliquiæ Houstounianæ: seu, Plantarum in America Meridionali a Gulielmo Houstoun ... collectarum icones manu propria ære incisæ; cum descriptionibus e schedis ejusdem in bibliotheca Josephi Banks ... asservatis.

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    • Londini, 1781.
    • 1781
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    Text *KF 1781 (Houstoun, W. Reliqui Houstounian)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Geschichte der See-Reisen und Entdeckungen im Süd-Meer welche auf Befehl Sr. Grossbrittanischen Majestät unternommen, und von Commodore Byron, Capitain Wallis, Capitain Carteret und Capitain Coock im Dolphin, der Swallow, und dem Endeavour nach einander ausgeführet worden sind; aus den Tagebüchern der verschiedenen Befehlshaber und den Handschriften Joseph Banks ... verfasst von Dr. Johann Hawkesworth. Mit des Herrn Verfassers Genehmhaltung aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Johann Friedrich Schiller ...

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    • Berlin, Bey A. Haude und J.C. Spencer, Gedruckt bey Christian Sigismund Spener, 1774.
    • 1774
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    Text *KF 1774 (Hawkesworth, J. Geschichte der See-Reisen und Entdeckungen im Sud-Meer)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A new voyage, round the world, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771; undertaken by order of His present Majesty, performed by, Captain James Cooke, in the ship Endeavour, drawn up from his own journal, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, esq., F. R. S., and published by the special direction of the Right Honourable the lords of the admiralty. By John Hawkesworth ... With cutts and a map of the whole navigation ...

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    • New-York, Printed by J. Rivington, 1774.
    • 1774
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    Text *KD 1774 (Hawkesworth, J. New voyage) Copy 1 *KD 1774 (Hawkesworth, J. New voyage) Copy 2 Library has: v. 1 onlySchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Letter and memorandum from Capt. George Dixon to Sir Joseph Banks regarding the fur trade on the northwest coast, A.D. 1789.

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    • [San Francisco] : White Knight Press, 1941.
    • 1941
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    Text HAA (White knight chapbooks. Pacific northwest series. no. 3)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Scientific correspondence of Joseph Priestley : ninety-seven letters addressed to Josiah Wedgwood, Sir Joseph Banks, Capt. James Keir, James Watt, Dr. William Withering, Dr. Benjamin Rush, and others / edited, with copious biographical, bibliographical, and explanatory notes, by Henry Carrington Bolton.

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    • New York : Kraus Reprint Co., 1969, c1891.
    • 1969-1891
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  • Banks' florilegium : a publication in thirty-four parts of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world in H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 / the specimens were gathered and classified by Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., and Daniel Solander and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784, after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson.

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    • London : Alecto Historical Editions in association with the British Museum (Natural History), 1980-1990.
    • 1980-1990
    • 36 Items
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    Text Arents BIP++++ (Banks. 1980) 04-68 pt. 7 (plates 136-157)Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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    Text Arents BIP++++ (Banks. 1980) 04-68 pt. 9 (plates 181-202)Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • A voyage to the South Sea [electronic resource] : undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh : including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

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    • London : Printed for George Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, 1792.
    • 1792

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