Title: The Dixon-Meares Controversy, Containing, Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares by George Dixon An Answer to Mr. George Dixon by John Meares and Further Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares by George Dixon Author: Howay, F[rederic] W[illiam], editor. Place: Toronto Publisher: Ryerson Press Date: [1929] Description: [xv], 156 pp. Profusely illustrated with facsimiles, maps, etc. Original blue cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. No. 336 of 500 copies. John Meares in his 1790 account of his voyages to the Northwest coast of America, made certain statements which angered George Dixon claiming the latter had failed to respond to his requests for aid, and Dixon responded with the first of these pamphlets, which invoked a reply and the counter-reply. Hill notes that "original editions of the pamphlets here reprinted are of the greatest rarity." Hill 830. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and creasing to jacket, slight wear to cloth; near fine volume in very good jacket. Item number: 271172
Title: The Dixon-Meares Controversy, Containing, Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares by George Dixon An Answer to Mr. George Dixon by John Meares and Further Remarks on the Voyages of John Meares by George Dixon Author: Howay, F[rederic] W[illiam], editor. Place: Toronto Publisher: Ryerson Press Date: [1929] Description: [xv], 156 pp. Profusely illustrated with facsimiles, maps, etc. Original blue cloth with gilt cover vignette, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. No. 336 of 500 copies. John Meares in his 1790 account of his voyages to the Northwest coast of America, made certain statements which angered George Dixon claiming the latter had failed to respond to his requests for aid, and Dixon responded with the first of these pamphlets, which invoked a reply and the counter-reply. Hill notes that "original editions of the pamphlets here reprinted are of the greatest rarity." Hill 830. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and creasing to jacket, slight wear to cloth; near fine volume in very good jacket. Item number: 271172
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