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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
de Dixon, Captain George
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London: Published by Geo. Goulding, 1789 2nd edition. Hardcover. fine. xxix,[2],360,47pp. Quarto. Five folding maps (including frontispiece) and seventeen plates (3 folding). Bound in full modern speckled calf. Flat spine, ruled into five compartments. Red morocco title label. Gilt decoration on the board edges. A very clean crisp copy in a very attractive modern binding. Hill p.23. Account of an expedition sent out to establish the trade in furs in North America. Dixon, who had sailed under Cook on his third voyage, continued Cook's work along the northwest coast of America, discovering Queen Charlotte Island, Port Mulgrave, Norfolk Bay, and Dixon entrance and Archipelago while continuing down the coast and trading with the Indians. Dixon also visited Hawaii three times during the course of the voyage and made a valuable contribution in the maps. "The volume was largely written by William Beresford and dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. The accounts of this expedition relate largely to the geography, ethnology,and natural history of the American coast from Nootka Sound northward." - Hill. 1789
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- 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
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- Dixon, Captain George
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- Published by Geo. Goulding
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- 1789 2nd edition
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