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. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.

Captain Nathaniel Portlock.

Publication Date: 1789

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1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label. Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade. The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy.

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Title: 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. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
Publication Date: 1789
Edition: 1st Edition

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