captain nathaniel portlock (7 Ergebnisse)

Leather over boards. Zustand: Good. First edition. Hardcover leather (brown) over boards. 4to. xii, 384, xl, +[frontispiece portrait]+[6 engraved maps]+[13 engraved plates] pp. Illustrated with a b/w engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Nathaniel Portlock, 6 b/w fold-out engraved maps, and 13 engraved plates - 8 in b/w and 5 hand coloured (all of the birds). Spine replaced and text block trimmed. Ownership marks: the words "Badminton Club" have been stamped in blue at the top of the front pastedown and flyleaf, inscription on the front flyleaf in graphite, and another inscription in the top right corner of the title page (partially trimmed) in ink. Red leather label with gilt short title pasted on the spine. Board edges decorated with gilt rolled pattern. Decorative yellow edge stain. Head darkened. Frontispiece and title page lightly foxed. Some bleed from the engraved plates; contemporary tissue guards have been inserted. Text block pages and plates are bright and clean. The binding is strong and square. The spine is lightly rubbed and creased. The original boards and rubbed, creased, and bumped, with most of the gilt decoration rubbed off the foot. Corners exposed. Overall a bright, handsome copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE FIRST COMMERCIAL VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. First edition. London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789. Quarto (11 13/16" x 9 1/4", 301mm x 236mm). [Full collation available.] With 20 engravings: 14 plates and 6 folding charts. Bound in contemporary calf (re-backed, with the original back-strip laid down) with a gilt fillet border. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Author and title gilt to black sheep in the second panel. Gilt fillet to the edges of the boards and to the turn-ins. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block sprinkled blue. Green silk marking-ribbon. Re-backed (quite discreetly), with the original back-strip laid down. Corners strengthened. Heavily rubbed (and recently treated with Cellugel) with some wear at the hinges. Foxing and offsetting at the plates, but altogether quite a clean, square copy with tidily-folded plates. Long repaired tear to AA3. The King George's Sound Company (a k a Richard Cadman Etches and Co.) was established in 1785 to oversee British commercial activity (particularly fur trading) with the Pacific Northwest, which was mapped and described by Captain Cook. Nathaniel Portlock (1748-1817) was on Cook's third and final voyage, and so before commanding his own ship had practical experience of the Pacific and of the American Northwest. Portlock commanded the King George and George Dixon (1748-1795) the Queen Charlotte, setting out in early 1785 across the Atlantic, round Cape Horn (the southern tip of South America) and then up to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and finally up toward Alaska, before finally sailing back to England via Macao and the Cape of Good Hope in 1787, arriving in early 1788. Portlock's Voyage is therefore the first account of the Pacific Northwest through a practical commercial lens, refining and fleshing out the account of Cook -- including, interestingly, a new account of the death of Cook as told by a Hawaiian -- for curious speculators back in Britain. In addition to maps and views, there are several natural history plates (particularly of birds), indicating a growing English fascination with illustrated ornithological books. Hill 1376; Howes P 497; Sabin 64389; Wagner, Northwest Coast 738.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE FIRST COMMERCIAL VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST -- THE SHARDELOES-NEBENZAHL COPY, IN THE PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. First edition. London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789. Quarto (12 3/8" x 9 13/16", 316mm x 250mm). With 20 engravings: 14 plates and 6 folding charts. Bound in the publisher's blue drab boards (re-backed). All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Re-backed. Wear at the extremities, particularly at the corners. Chips and loss at the head and tail, the front board starting at both ends. A little foxing and offsetting around the plates, but altogether a fresh example. Bookseller's label ("Sold by T. Hookham, Stationer, Bookseller and Bookbinder. New Bond Street, Corner of Bruton Street.") to the front paste-down, with "Shardeloes" in ink manuscript adjacent and the book-label of Kenneth Nebenzahl below. The King George's Sound Company (a k a Richard Cadman Etches and Co.) was established in 1785 to oversee British commercial activity (particularly fur trading) with the Pacific Northwest, which was mapped and described by Captain Cook. Nathaniel Portlock (1748-1817) was on Cook's third and final voyage, and so before commanding his own ship had practical experience of the Pacific and of the American Northwest. Portlock commanded the King George and George Dixon (1748-1795) the Queen Charlotte, setting out in early 1785 across the Atlantic, round Cape Horn (the southern tip of South America) and then up to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and finally up toward Alaska, before finally sailing back to England via Macao and the Cape of Good Hope in 1787, arriving in early 1788. Portlock's Voyage is therefore the first account of the Pacific Northwest through a practical commercial lens, refining and fleshing out the account of Cook -- including, interestingly, a new account of the death of Cook as told by a Hawaiian -- for curious speculators back in Britain. In addition to maps and views, there are several natural history plates (particularly of birds), indicating a growing English fascination with illustrated ornithological books. Shardeloes is a country house (with Robert Adam interiors) near Amersham in Buckinghamshire, built in the 1760's for William Drake (1723-1796), who served in the House of Commons for fifty years. Given the placement of the house's name, it seems likely that Drake bought the book directly from Thomas Hookham, whose shop at Bruton Street and New Bond St. (the intersection currently hosts Hermès, Burberry, Miu Miu and Balenciaga; his number at the time was 147, now Richard Green Gallery) was and is an eight-minute walk from Stockdale's premises at 181 Piccadilly (now Fortnum & Mason). The library of Shardeloes was sold in two tranches, in the 1920's and in the 1950's. Kenneth Nebenzahl (1927-2020) was a dealer of the highest order, specializing in maps. His 2012 Christie's New York sale fetched some $11.6M (the present item was lot 105). Indeed, the Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago (the first speaker was the great authority R.A. Skelton) are among the most important landmarks in the field. Hill 1376; Howes P 497; Sabin 64389; Wagner, Northwest Coast 738.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. 1st Edition. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 1st edition of Portlock's account of his voyage to explore America's northwest coast including British Columbia, Alaska, Vancouver and Queen Charlotte's Island). Rare deluxe colored Issue with 20 engraved plates, charts and maps - 6 folding charts or maps, 2 engraved portraits, 12 engraved plates (the 5 ornithological plates with contemporary hand-coloring, as issued). Well illustrated with 20 plates and maps: one large folding general map of the Northwest Coast, and five maps of particular harbours along the coast. Bound in full leather with 5 raised bands on the spine. Gilt decorated spine and boards. Hinges intact and binding is solid and straight. No ownership markings. Some rubbing along board edges and bands on spine. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition of the abridged edition. 272pp., engraved frontispiece, large folding engraved map. Sympathetically rebacked with original marbled papercovered boards. Corners a little worn down, but a handsome, very good or better copy. *Sabin 20365.*.

London: John Stockdale & George Goulding. 1789. 4to. Contemporary full olive marbled and polished calf, spine ornamented in gilt and with red morocco lettering-piece, gilt-ruled borders, gilt edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; pp. xii, 384, xl; engraved portrait frontispiece of Portlock by Mazell after Dodd, 6 engraved folding map and charts by J. Reid and W. Harrison, Longmate, 5 engraved ornithological plates by P. Mazell after J. Woodcock, J. Hogan, et al., 5 engraved views and profiles P. Mazell after J. Woodcock, et al., 2 engraved plates of artefacts from the Sandwich Islands, and an engraved portrait of Tyaana (an Atoui chieftain) by W. Shirwin after Woodcock; slightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked and with minor restorations, occasional light spotting or browning (more so to first map) offsetting to opposite page from portrait of Tyaana, three marginal tears of flaws with repairs to text leaves; otherwise a very good copy.First edition. Portlock's account of his important circumnavigation, a by-product of his trading mission to the Pacific Coast of North America, is 'rich in geographical results' (ODNB), the principal, and successful, object of which was the opening of the fur trade in north-west America. This necessitated traffic with the Indians of the north-west coast, discussed by Portlock in chapters X, XII and XIII: 'vivid descriptions of encounters with the American Indians' (Hill); he also appends some native vocabularies. Portlock, commanding the King George, and Dixon, commanding the Queen Charlotte, did much to improve upon Cook's earlier charts of the region. Earlier, Portlock had served on both the Discovery and Resolution during Cook's circumnavigation. 'Portlock had arrived late in the trading season, and his fur harvest was consequently poor. The two ships coasted southwards, but bad weather prevented their attempt, from 23 to 28 September, to enter Nootka Sound (B.C.), where the two captains had agreed to winter, and so the expedition refitted at the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands. The following spring the ships returned to the northwest coast, arriving at Montague Island (Alaska) on 24 April 1787. Some two weeks later Dixon was led by Indians to the Nootka, commanded by John Meares, who with his crew had passed a desperate winter in Prince William Sound (Alaska). Portlock provided assistance to make the ship seaworthy, and it was able to sail on 18 June. Meanwhile, having learned that Meares expected one of his company's ships to arrive at Nootka Sound from China that month, Dixon in the Queen Charlotte had proceeded southwards to forestall it' (Dictionary of Canadian Biography).That winter Portlock and Dixon sailed separately to Macao (near Canton, People's Republic of China), where their combined cargo of 2,552 skins realized 54,857 dollars. Proceeding then to England, they reached Margate roads in August 1788, bringing home a consignment of tea for the East India Company. Portlock's account of the expedition, published in 1789, presents lists of the flora and fauna he observed, often with descriptions and illustrations, as well as ethnographic notes and a geographical record of the entire voyage.Hill II, pp. 541-542; NMM I, 141; Sabin 64389; Wood p. 523; Zimmer 495.

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.