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NICE COPY OF A NORTHWEST CORNERSTONE MEARES, JOHN. Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. 28 maps
NICE COPY OF A NORTHWEST CORNERSTONE MEARES, JOHN. Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. 28 maps and plates, including the extra plate of the Philippines. 4to, early speckled calf, minor bumps and wear, nicely rebacked retaining the original backstrip; minor separations and a few additional creases to the large folding plates, as usual. London, 1790
- Notes: first edition. "This is one of the early and fundamental books on the Northwest coast of America in general and on Alaska in particular... This work, profusely illustrated and with many valuable historical documents appended to the main narrative, is of great importance in the study of early trading in furs originating on the northwest coast and of a serious conflict between English and the Spaniard in this connection. Furthermore, it was on Meares' discoveries that England primarily based her claims to Oregon"--Lada-Mocarski 46; Howes M469; Sabin 47260; Abbey, Travel 594; Hill 1126; Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 201.
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