Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S. &c. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 Author: Beechey, Captain F[rederick] W. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Carey & Lea Date: 1832 Description: vi, [2], 493 + [24] ad pp. (8vo) 9½x5¾, modern morocco-backed marbled boards. First American Edition. Abridged from the two-volume English edition of 1831 (following that of octavo English edition), called by Hill "one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California... Beechey's work provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco..." Forbes 803; Hill (2nd ed.) 94; Howes B309. Lot Amendments Condition: Dampstained bottom half of last 50 pages or so, and ads at rear, moderate to heavy foxing, a few dampstains on title page; good internally; modern binding fine. Item number: 201968
Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S. &c. in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 Author: Beechey, Captain F[rederick] W. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Carey & Lea Date: 1832 Description: vi, [2], 493 + [24] ad pp. (8vo) 9½x5¾, modern morocco-backed marbled boards. First American Edition. Abridged from the two-volume English edition of 1831 (following that of octavo English edition), called by Hill "one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California... Beechey's work provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco..." Forbes 803; Hill (2nd ed.) 94; Howes B309. Lot Amendments Condition: Dampstained bottom half of last 50 pages or so, and ads at rear, moderate to heavy foxing, a few dampstains on title page; good internally; modern binding fine. Item number: 201968
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