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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, George Goulding, 1789
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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, 21 engraved charts and plates (some folding, 7 natural history subjects hand-coloured), occasional light off-setting, nineteenth century calf gilt, red morocco spine label, marbled edges, spine worn, abrasions to sides [Forbes 161; Howes D365; Lada-Mocarski 43; Sabin 30264], 4to (295 x 230mm.), George Goulding, 1789
Footnotes
First edition 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.
Provenance: Adam Drummond of Megginch Castle (1821) bookplate; thence by descent.

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