A Voyage Round The World But More Particularly To The North West Coast Of America Performed In 1785

by Nathaniel Portlock

$12,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Contemporary full tree calf boards bordered in gilt, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers. Rare deluxe issue with hand-coloured plates of the first edition of a classic narrative of the early exploration on the Northwest coast. Portlock, a veteran of Cook's third voyage, and Dixon were sent by the King George's Sound Company to the Northwest coast of North America to investigate the economic possibilities of the fur trade

• Binding: Leather

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