Subject	Oceania–Discovery and exploration
	Discoveries in geography
	Voyages and travels
	Australia–Description and travel
	Explorers
	Italian language–Written Italian
Category	1. Settlement
Author	Bertacchi, Francesco
Keywords	Expedition
Person	Cook, James
	Lapérouse, Jean François de Galaup
	d’Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni
Current Holder	National Library of Australia
Period Of Reference	1799/1805
Series Number	MS Acc10.059
Item Number	4902846
Access Rights	Digitised
Rights	Copyright Undetermined. Available for research. Not for loan.
Language	Italian
Description From Source	0.03 m. (1 v.) MS Acc10.059 comprises a 436-page monograph in Italian on Captain James Cook’s three voyages. Based on the Paris edition of Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard’s translation of Cook’s A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world. Consists of title page, four-page note to the reader, five-page introduction, chapters on each of Cook’s voyages, and a “Note del compilatore questo saggio”. In the final chapter Bertacchi gives his own notes on the voyages and subsequent history in the Pacific, making reference to a wide range of other sources, and including discussions of the voyages of Malaspina, La Perouse and d’Entrecasteaux, which were modelled on those of Cook (1 v.).
Physical Format	Manuscripts