NMLP P-041436 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

Voyages (the official accounts of the three voyages)

Captain James Cook (with Hawkesworth, and King) · First voyage: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1773. Second voyage: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1777. Third voyage: printed by W. & A. Strahan for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, London, 1784 · 1773

All three official accounts are London originals, so no UK-versus-US or translation precedence applies — but 'first published account' and 'official first edition' are different things for every voyage, and the unofficial account came first each time. The Endeavour voyage reached print anonymously as 'A Journal of a Voyage round the World, in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour' (London: for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1771), attributed to James Magra (later Matra), published less than three months after the ship's return and two years before Hawkesworth; its first issue carries a dedication leaf that was suppressed during publication after the Admiralty, Banks and Solander publicly disavowed the book, and the second issue lacks that leaf. Georg Forster's 'A Voyage Round the World' (London, 1777) was published on 17 March 1777, six weeks before Cook's own second-voyage account, making it the first published account of the second voyage. Rickman's anonymous 'Journal of Captain Cook's last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' (London: E. Newbery, 1781) preceded the official third-voyage account by three years. Where a collection holds both, name the official first edition and the unofficial precursor separately.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041436 for "Voyages (the official accounts of the three voyages)" by Captain James Cook (with Hawkesworth, and King) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041436, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).