[Letter] 1895 Mar. 13 Merton Hall ... Yorkshire [to] Edward A. Petherick [manuscript] / [from] C.J.W. Bolckow. [1895]

Cook, James, 1728-1779

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James Cook (b. November 7, 1728, Marton, Great Britan-d. February 14, 1779, Hawaii) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. He became an apprentice to some shipowners in Whitby. In 1759 he became master of his own ship, the Northumberland. The following winter, while laid up in Halifax, he studied mathematics and attained a sound knowledge of astronomical navigation. Cook went on to become an eminent circumnavigator. He made many geographical discoveries, ...

Bolckow, C. J. W.

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Petherick, Edward Augustus, 1847-1917

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Epithet: English manager of G Robertson Australian bookseller British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x000199 Petherick was born in England and came to Australia as a child. He returned to London to work in 1870 and spent the next forty years as a bookseller, publisher, bibliographer and book collector. Upon his return to Australia in 1909 he presented his large collection to the Commonwealth Parliament as a "n...