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

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Author: Nathaniel Portlock (c1748-1817) Year: 1789 Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale and George Goulding Place: London Description: xii+384+xl pages with frontispiece, 19 plates (6 folding copper-engraved charts, and 13 copper-engraved plates). Quarto (11¼" x 9"), full calf decorated in gilt, spine tooled in gilt with morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers, slipcase. (Forbes 177; Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.239; New Hill 1376; Howes P497; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Wagner Northwest Coast 738-43) First Edition. Nathaniel Portlock entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St Albans . In 1776 he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of James Cook. During the expedition, in August 1779, he was transferred to the HMS Resolution . On Cook's third voyage, furs obtained in present-day British Columbia and Alaska sold for good prices when the expedition called at Macao. In 1785 Richard Cadman Etches and partners, including Portlock and George Dixon formed a partnership, commonly called the King George's Sound Company, to develop the fur trade. Dixon had also served on Resolution in the Pacific Ocean under Cook. In September 1785 Portlock and Dixon sailed from England. Portlock was in command of the larger vessel, the 320-ton King George , with a crew of 59. Dixon's was in command of the 200-ton Queen Charlotte , with a crew of 33. Dixon and Portlock sailed together for most of their three-year voyage. They crossed

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