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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Series: Copenhagen Studies in Language 139p large paperback, various contributors, bibliography, new Language: English.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 2012 edition. 259 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding | Ekaterina Ovchinnikova | Taschenbuch | xvii | Englisch | 2014 | Atlantis Press | EAN 9789462390393 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Amst., 2012. XV,242 pp. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Becket & De Hondt, 1771 [first issue, with the dedication leaf to Banks and Solander (quickly suppressed), and N1 in the uncancelled state]. Quarto, [ii] (title page, verso blank), ii (dedication leaf), 130, [3] ('Vocabulary of the Language of Otahitee') pages. Later half brown morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, edges dyed yellow; leather lightly rubbed; slight surface loss to the sides; title page slightly marked and a little dusty, with the inkstamp of the 'Northern Protector of Aboriginals' in the top corner; early notes in ink on a contemporary binder's blank; later marginal notes in pencil on about a dozen pages (but see below); an excellent copy. The first published account of Cook's first voyage to the Pacific, which appeared some two years before the official account. Provenance: This copy carries the stamp of the Northern Protector of Aboriginals, and appears to have been in the collection of the notable ethnographer Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933), who occupied that office between 1898 and 1906. The pertinent pencil annotations are most likely in his hand. The later bookplates of John Glasgow (designed by Paul Nash, 1908), and Donald H. Graham Jr. are mounted on the front endpaper. Wantrup 5.01; Beddie 693.

First edition, published two months after the return of the Endeavour and preceding Hawkesworth by two years. This copy has the leaf addressing the Lords of the Admiralty, Joseph Banks, and Daniel Solander. Written by Cook's mutinous midshipman, "this was the first in a series of so-called 'surreptitious accounts' of Cook's various voyages to appear in print: the Admiralty found it practically impossible to enforce their ruling that no unofficial publications should pre-empt the official and lengthier accounts of the voyages, naturally much slower in the press" (Parks). This account was formally attributed to a host of figures including Banks, Hawkesworth, and even Cook himself. Arnold Wood, in his Discovery of Australia (1922), was the first to suggest that the author was the American midshipman James Magra (later Matra) - subsequently a leading proponent of establishing a convict colony at Botany Bay - and this attribution, supported by the editor of Cook's journals, James Beaglehole, is now widely accepted. Magra neglects to mention his unsavoury conduct on the voyage. "In May 1770. suspecting that [Magra] was implicated in the drunken cropping of his clerk's ears, Cook suspended the midshipman from duty, noting that he was 'one of those gentlemen, frequently found on board Kings Ships, that can very well be spared, or to speake more planer good for nothing'" (ADB). Magra was also likely the ringleader of an attempted mutiny at Tahiti, which only failed because of a wave of venereal disease. Copies were sold with or without the leaf addressing the Admiralty, "which has been misdescribed as a dedication. It is nothing of the kind, but rather a provocative and brazen attempt to rebut an official notice which called into question the authenticity of the work and which is breathtaking in its temerity and even insolence. Because a relatively small number of copies of the book have survived with this additional leaf, it is clear that the Admiralty responded by demanding the removal of this offending leaf" (McCourt, p. 145). The presence of the leaf is not conclusively indicative of first issue. This copy also has McCourt's uncancelled state of leaf N1. Beddie 694; ESTC T29208; Hill 1066; Holmes 3; Parks 6; Sabin 16242; Spence 229; Streeter 2405. James McCourt, "A Second Cancel Leaf in A Journal of a Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Ship Endeavour in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 and 1771", Script & Print, vol. 46, no. 3., 2022. Quarto (269 x 211 mm), pp. iv, 130, [3], [1] (blank). Nineteenth-century half calf, green spine label, spine ruled in gilt, marbled sides, edges sprinkled red. Binding refurbished, abrasions where bookplate removed from front pastedown, worming in upper margin but text unaffected, couple of closed tears: very good.