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DIXON (GEORGE) 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, FIRST EDITION, 1789 image 1
DIXON (GEORGE) 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, FIRST EDITION, 1789 image 2
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DIXON (GEORGE)
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

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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DIXON (GEORGE)

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, first edition, half-title, large folding engraved frontispiece chart, 4 folding engraved maps, 17 engraved plates (8 folding), clean tear to frontispiece, short tear to p.285, but otherwise very clean, untrimmed in original boards, lettered in ink "Dixon's Voyage" on spine, preserved in a purpose-made cloth book box [Forbes 161; Howes D365; Lada-Mocarski 43; Sabin 30264], 4to (295 x 230mm.), George Goulding, 1789

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FINE TALL UNSOPHISTICATED COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS, of an account of the fur-trading expedition fitted out by the King George's Sound Company, with important results for the exploration and mapping of the American Northwest. The two ships were commanded by Dixon and the American-born Nathaniel Portlock, both veterans of Cook's last voyage. It includes accounts of the Hawaiian islands where they wintered in 1787-1788. The text was edited by Dixon from a series of letters by the Quaker, William Beresford.

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