• Title
  Telescope said to have belonged to Captain James Cook
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 14
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1760-1779
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  447360
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 87 cm. long, fully extended - 1 telescope in timber case with hinged lid
  
• Collection history
  See Christie family documents concerning the telescope's provenance & authenticity, 1891-1917 (MSQ 150)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823535
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Telescope - Capt. Cook, lent by R.J. Holder Christie, Pen Y Bryn, Saint Peter's Road, South Croydon" -- inscribed on case
• Conservation note
  
  Telescope and box stored separately, April 2011. Box in DR sequence
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  
• Topic
  telescopes
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Encounters : Horizons Gallery
  James Cook & the exploration of the Pacific
  Finding Antarctica
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Anchorage Museum Alaska)
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Washington State Historical Society, Seattle)

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