A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789. xii, 384, xl pp. With 20 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, folding route chart and 5 other folding charts. 4to (290 x 226 mm). Modern buckram. Portrait reinserted and with a small corner dampstain, some browning and offsetting, including to title-page, scattered few spots, cloth a trifle worn. First edition. "Portlock was a veteran of Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific. His vivid descriptions of encounters with the American Indians and the Russians serve to broaden the perspective provided by William Beresford's and Dixon's narrative" (Hill, p 239). Howes P497; Sabin 64389.
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789. xii, 384, xl pp. With 20 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, folding route chart and 5 other folding charts. 4to (290 x 226 mm). Modern buckram. Portrait reinserted and with a small corner dampstain, some browning and offsetting, including to title-page, scattered few spots, cloth a trifle worn. First edition. "Portlock was a veteran of Captain Cook's third voyage to the Pacific. His vivid descriptions of encounters with the American Indians and the Russians serve to broaden the perspective provided by William Beresford's and Dixon's narrative" (Hill, p 239). Howes P497; Sabin 64389.
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