CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: fragment of the Log of the 'Resolution'; 25, 27 March 1773. Autograph. Part of a folio from the missing Log of the first part of Cook's Second Voyage, that for the second part now being Add. 27956 (see Appendix V, 'Cook's Logs and... Mar 1773

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CAPTAIN JAMES COOK: fragment of the Log of the 'Resolution'; 25, 27 March 1773. Autograph. Part of a folio from the missing Log of the first part of Cook's Second Voyage, that for the second part now being Add. 27956 (see Appendix V, 'Cook's Logs and... Mar 1773

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