NATHANIEL PORTLOCK (1748-1817) 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 and George Goulding, 1789. 4° (299 x 235mm). Frontispiece portrait, large folding map and 19 engraved plates and maps, 5 folding. 20th-century half morocco over contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in one, marbled edges (a little rubbed and scuffed, spine slightly faded, hinges split, superficial cracking on joints). Provenance : John C. Lees (late 18th-century signature on title) -- Robert Shaw RN, HMS Victory (early, partially erased inscription on front free endpaper) -- Ferdinand Meath McVeagh, Drewstown, co. Meath (b. 1789, engraved armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMMERICAL VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND FIRST ENGLISH VOYAGE TO HAWAII SINCE JAMES COOK an expedition commanded by Portlock for the King George's Sound Company, chartered by the South Sea Company for the purpose of fur trading. When his ships parted at Prince William Sound, Portlock sailed for Nootka, exploring the Alaska coast from Cape Edgecumb to Montague Island after sailing deep into Cook Inlet to establish trading centres. It is Portlock's descriptions of the Indians and Russians he encountered which 'broaden the perspective' of Dixon and Beresford's account and are some of the finest of the period. Portlock also includes an account of Cook's death as described to him by a Hawaiian who was witness to it. In 1791 he returned to the Pacific in command of the Assistant on William Bligh's second 'Breadfruit Voyage'. Hill 1376; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Forbes 177.
NATHANIEL PORTLOCK (1748-1817) 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 and George Goulding, 1789. 4° (299 x 235mm). Frontispiece portrait, large folding map and 19 engraved plates and maps, 5 folding. 20th-century half morocco over contemporary marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments and lettered in one, marbled edges (a little rubbed and scuffed, spine slightly faded, hinges split, superficial cracking on joints). Provenance : John C. Lees (late 18th-century signature on title) -- Robert Shaw RN, HMS Victory (early, partially erased inscription on front free endpaper) -- Ferdinand Meath McVeagh, Drewstown, co. Meath (b. 1789, engraved armorial bookplate on upper pastedown). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMMERICAL VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND FIRST ENGLISH VOYAGE TO HAWAII SINCE JAMES COOK an expedition commanded by Portlock for the King George's Sound Company, chartered by the South Sea Company for the purpose of fur trading. When his ships parted at Prince William Sound, Portlock sailed for Nootka, exploring the Alaska coast from Cape Edgecumb to Montague Island after sailing deep into Cook Inlet to establish trading centres. It is Portlock's descriptions of the Indians and Russians he encountered which 'broaden the perspective' of Dixon and Beresford's account and are some of the finest of the period. Portlock also includes an account of Cook's death as described to him by a Hawaiian who was witness to it. In 1791 he returned to the Pacific in command of the Assistant on William Bligh's second 'Breadfruit Voyage'. Hill 1376; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Forbes 177.
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