A Voyage around 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: George Dixon (1748-1795) Year: 1789 Publisher: George Goulding Place: London Description: xxix+[blank]+[Errata/Directions for Binder]+361+47 pages with large folding frontispiece map, 21 engraved charts and plates (some folding), 7 natural history subjects hand-colored and appendixes (1 Natural History. Appendix 2 " Tables Of The Route"). Quarto (11" x 9"0 bound in half leather with five raised spine bands and red label in gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Forbes 161; Hill p 23; Howes D-365; Sabin 20364) Second edition. George Dixon was an English sea captain, explorer, and maritime fur trader. He served under Captain Cook in his third voyage, on HMS Resolution, as armorer. In the course of the voyage he learned about the commercial possibilities along the North West Coast of America. In 1782, George Dixon was engaged by William Bolts. Bolts was director of the Triestine East India Company, The Triestine Society sent the Cobenzell in September 1783 on a commercial voyage to the Malabar Coast and China by way of the Cape of Good Hope. After leaving Trieste, she proceeded to Marseilles, where she took in the principal part of her cargo and departed that port in December. Apparently, Bolts still wished to carry out his North West Coast venture in connection with this voyage, and asked George Dixon to participate. However, Dixon went back to England, where he attempted to interest Sir Joseph Banks and English merchants in the North West Coast fur trade. This resulted i

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