Captain Nathaniel. 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 Portloc

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PORTLOCK, Captain Nathaniel. 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. London: John Stockdale George Goulding. 1789. 4to. Contemporary full olive marbled and polished calf, spine ornamented in gilt and with red morocco lettering-piece, gilt-ruled borders, gilt edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. xii, 384, xl; engraved portrait frontispiece of Portlock by Mazell after Dodd, 6 engraved folding map and charts by J. Reid and W. Harrison, Longmate, 5 engraved ornithological plates by P. Mazell after J. Woodcock, J. Hogan, et al., 5 engraved views and profiles P. Mazell after J. Woodcock, et al., 2 engraved plates of artefacts from the Sandwich Islands, and an engraved portrait of Tyaana (an Atoui chieftain) by W. Shirwin after Woodcock; slightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked and with minor restorations, occasional light spotting or browning (more so to first map) offsetting to opposite page from portrait of Tyaana, three marginal tears of flaws with repairs to text leaves; otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Portlock’s account of his important circumnavigation, a by-product of his trading mission to the Pacific Coast of North America, is 'rich in geographical results' (ODNB), the principal, and successful, object of which was the opening of the fur trade in north-west America. This necessitated traffic with the Indians o

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