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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Complete 1831 hardcover collection of the Quarterly Review. Highlighted articles include a contempory narrative of Beechey's Voyage to the Pacific and the Bering Strait, pg. 57 - 96, a review of Hall's voyages, and an article on Sanskrit Poetry. Cove boards have a 3" piece missing from spine, and moderate edgewear. Owner's pastedown on FEP. Light age spotting on preliminary pages and intermittently throughout.

xxi,(2) 392;vii,(1) 393-742 pp. Quarto. (28 X 22.5 cm.) Two volumes bound as one. Bound in 19th century full polished calf. Five raised bands. Gilt decoration to the panels. Red title label. Red marbled endpapers. All edges marbled to match. Illustrated with 23 plates and 3 maps (including large folding map showing the route taken by the H.M.S. Blossom). Some of the plates include a View of Point Barrow, Natives of the Coast near Cape Thomson, 3 plates of fossil remains and also a Portrait of John Adams. Errata slip in volume 1. A fine very clean copy. Arctic Biblio. 1228. Sabin 4347. Ferguson, 1418; Hill, p.19, Lada-Mocarski, 95. H.M.S. Blossom was commissioned by the Admiralty as a relief expedition to the Bering Strait area to await the expeditions of Captain Parry and Franklin on their North West Passage Expeditions. Beechey had instructions to explore those areas of the Pacific on his route and to reach Bering Strait no later than July 10, 1826. The narrative contains extensive accounts of his layovers at San Francisco, Monterey, Honolulu, and Okinawa. An important aspect of the narrative is Beechey's stop at Pitcairn Island, where he interviewed one of the last survivors, John Adams, from the Mutiny on the Bounty. Although the expedition missed Franklin by short distance and Parry never made it close, much important scientific research was done during the trip. The book was published in two formats, both octavo and quarto. The volume appears as a single volume with two title pages for as two separate volumes. This quarto issue is referred to as the Admiralty issue and is the preferred format. George Back's Great Fish River Narrative was published in 1836, also in a Quarto Admiralty issue to match. A very nice superior example.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tan leather, title on spine gilt. Covers scratched and rubbed. Top of spine bumped and discolored. Pages browned and some spotting. Foxed throughout. Publisher catalog bound in.

The so-called "Admiralty Edition," the first and best issue of a most important voyage; 4to, 2 volumes, pp. [iii]-xxi, [3], 392; [iii]-vii, [1], [393]-742; complete copy with 23 engraved plates and 3 maps (2 folding), bound without the half-titles in contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in calf, maroon morocco labels; tide marks in the fore-margins of 7 plates in volume I, boards scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed; very good, sound and clean set. "Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates to extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. His book provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest . Beechey describes the Eskimos of the north, and relates his meeting with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account" (Hill). Cowan II, p. 42; Ferguson 1418; Forbes 772; Hill I, p. 19; Howes B-309; Lada-Mocarski 95; Sabin 4347.

Condition: Good. Title: Proceedings of the Expedition to explore the Northern Coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward; in 1821 and 1822, comprehening an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica, and of the ancient cities composing the Pentapolis.Author: Captain F. W. Beechey, R.N., F.R.S., and H. W. Beechey, Esq., F.S.A. Publisher: John Murray, London. Publication date: 1828, 1st. Binding: rebound half leather/marbled boards. Marbled inners and end pages. Illustrated: yes - with folding map, 8 plans, 13 aquatint plates (1 folding and 2 hand-coloured). Pages: 572 + appendix + intro.Boards in poor shape - detached from main book with parts missing to spine and edge wear, rub, peeling to rest. Clear tape partially added but of no use now. Internally a lot better with some light foxing to pages with spotting in places. First page partial detached and a little worn. Minor pencil notes in places. Some tissue guards worn or/and loose. A rare, interesting book that needs some repair work to boards to bring.

Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn 1831. Royal 8vo. Later hf calf over marbled paper boards. Spines with raised bands and contrasting morocco titling-labels. With 3 maps of which 2 are folding and 1 backed on linen being quite soiled and 23 full-page & double-page plates some of which have been supplied from other copies. Some offsetting but overall a good complete uncut set of the 1st edition. NOTE: An important voyage. Beechey was acting in conjunction with Franklin and Parry in attempting to discover the N.W. Passage. He discovered several South Sea Islands and visited Tahiti and Pitcairn where he met John Adams the 'Bounty' Mutiny survivor who gave him a long account of the Mutiny. The Expedition also visited San Francisco and other parts of California.