America.- [Beresford (William)] A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America...By Captain George Dixon, first edition, large paper copy, half-title, 22 engraved charts and plates, some folding, 7 of natural history with fine hand-colouring, light offsetting, a few plates with minor tears and repairs, 1 natural history with margins reinforced, endpapers foxed, the odd spot elsewhere but overall a crisp and bright copy, half crushed purple morocco, gilt, by Bayntun, spine a little sunned, lightly rubbed, [Sabin 20364; Hill 117], 4to, Geo. Goulding, 1789.
⁂ A series of letters by William Beresford, cargo-officer on Dixon's ship the Queen Charlotte. Portlock and Dixon's was the first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest, ostensibly to set up a fur-trading business. They succeeded, however, in a more detailed exploration and mapping of the coast, visiting both the Falkland islands and Sandwich islands (Hawaii), and improved on Cook's charts of the region. The first edition was also issued on regular paper with uncoloured plates. "Coloured copies are of considerable scarcity" (Hill).
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