A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon

first edition

1789 · London

by Portlock, Captain Nathaniel
London: for John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789. First edition. 4to (approx. 11.5" x 8.75"). [xii], 384, xl pp. With 14 engraved plates and 6 folding maps, letterpress tables. Rebound in full modern calf and plain endpapers, spine rules in gilt, earlier morocco lettering piece retained. Spine and portions of both covers sunned and show some scuffs, stains; title page and frontis creased and toned, small paper repair at corner of frontis plate, offsetting from plates and maps, areas of dampstaing to plates (mostly confined to margins). A Good copy of this important Pacific voyage, a commercial venture of the King George's Sound Company that produced improved charts of the western American coast and accounts of Native inhabitants of coastal America and Russia. Hill 1376; Howes P-497; Lada-Mocarski 42. (Inventory #: 39789)
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