• 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 - 1 telescope in timber case with hinged lid - 87 cm. long, fully extended
  
• 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 - National Museum of Australia
  James Cook & the exploration of the Pacific - Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (August, 2009 - April, 2010)
  Finding Antarctica - State Library of New South Wales (November, 2011 - February, 2012)
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Anchorage Museum Alaska) - Anchorage Museum, Alaska (March, 2015 - September, 2015)
  Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage (Washington State Historical Society, Seattle) - Washington State Historical Society (October, 2015 - January, 2016)

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