Observations and Remarks

£12,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An excellent copy of this rare account of piracy in the North Pacific. The voyage of the Mercury was ostensibly to investigate the North American fur trade. Historians have subsequently learned that this was a ruse and that this English ship with an English crew was actually in the service of Sweden. At sea, it transfo

• Year: 1791

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