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A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1878, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon
de Dixon, George
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CHESTER, Connecticut, United States
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London: George Goulding, 1789. First edition. Quarto (350 x 240 mm), 360, 48 pp.,with 22 engraved maps, charts, and plates Original blue-gray paper boards, parchment spine. Printed on thick paper (4 cm.+) and with the natural history plates beautifully colored. Old public library stamps on versos of plates, minor spotting and offsetting, but a superb, completely untrimmed, copy "George Dixon's account of his trading voyage in the Queen Charlotte forms an important supplement and companion to Nathaniel Portlock's narrative of the same on the King George....It is important for its account of trading at Hawaii, Kauai, and Niihau, with considerable information on the chiefs and the political atmosphere of the period". Forbes 161.
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- Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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- 33189
- Título
- A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1878, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon
- Autor
- Dixon, George
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- George Goulding
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1789
- Palabras clave
- , , , HAWAII,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- VOYAGES AND TRAVEL;
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
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CHESTER, Connecticut
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