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Verlag: Maradan, 1789
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Two voll. Paris: Maradan, 1789. Second edition in French. Octavo. With 19 of 22 engraved maps and plates (lacking plates 9, 10 and 11); and 23 folding letter-press tables. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt border to the front cover. On the spine, five raised bands with the title and…author gilt to morocco in the second panel, and number gilt to morocco in the third. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block marbled. Missouri Historical Society bookplate to the front paste-down (with "DISCARD" ink-stamped) and their ink-stamp twice to the title page and elsewhere. Shelving ink-stamp (completed in graphite manuscript) to the verso of the front free end-paper. Hinges of vol. 1 spilt, with heavy wear to the extremities. Front board of vol. 2 detached, and its rear board nearly so. Tanned generally, with some soiling to the extremities. Occasional mild foxing. Scattered stub- and marginal tears to the folding plates, which are sometimes untidily folded. Nathaniel Portlock (ca. 1748-1817) and George Dixon (1748-1795) were English sea captains, explorers and maritime fur traders. They accompanied Captain Cook on the Third Voyage and undertook this expedition on the Queen Charlotte in the service of King George's Sound Company of London. Portlock and Dixon sought to establish a British presence in the region's fur trade, and more accurately to map and explore the Northwest coast and the Nootka Sound, in present day Alaska and British Columbia. The narrative consists mainly of descriptive letters written by William Beresford, who was a cargo officer on the ship. Dixon contributed valuable charts and appendices. This first octavo edition in French was preceded by a quarto issue, which, like the first edition, was printed in the same year. Howes D 365; Sabin 20366.