Author: BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM
Title: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions, Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain Beechey, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. [2 volume set]
Description: London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. 1831, New Edition. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 volumes: xxii, 472; iv, 452 pages. 23 plates, 3 maps. The frontispiece map in volume I is detached. Leather spine rubbed, marbled boards. "Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipeligo, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambier) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macoa, Okinawa, and the coast of California. [and] provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest." (Hill). Hill 94;. Good.

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