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An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narbrough's Voyage to the...
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An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries: I. Sir John Narbrough's Voyage to the South-Sea.II. Captain J Tasman's Discoveries on the Coast of the South Terra ncognita. III. Captain J Wood's Attempt to Discover a North-East Passage to

by Narbrough, John (1637-1688)

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[[ii],xxix,[vii],191,[1]blank, 223 pages with 1 of 3 large fold out maps and 15 of 19 engraved fold out plates. Octavo (8" x 5") bound three quarter leather with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Edited by Sir Tancred Robinson. Second edition, preferred over the first edition "because it has the chart of the western and southern oceans." (Hill) In 1699.First published in 1694, which contained only two maps, The book is important because it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia, during which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji (Hill 1475).Rear Admiral Sir John Narborough, RN was an English naval commander of the 17th century, who served with distinction during the Anglo-Dutch Wars and against the Barbary Coast pirates. He was descended from an old Norfolk family. He received his commission in 1664, and in 1666 was promoted lieutenant for gallantry in the action with the… Read More
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An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of...
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An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, To the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Juan, Rivers; Performed By Order of the Government of the United States

by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813)

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5+[3]-277+[5]+65+[1]+53+[1]+87+[1] pages with frontispiece, 3 folding tables, a chart (on 5 separate leaves) and 6 maps (5 folding). Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering in gilt with five raised spine bands in custom enclosure. (Howes P-373, "b"; Wagner-Camp 9:1; Graff 3290; Wheat Transmississippi 297, 298, 299; Field 1217; Streeter Texas 1047C; Bradford 4415; Rittenhouse 467; Sabin 62936; Jones 743; Braislin 1474; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 163; Hill 1357; Reese, Best of the West, # 32) First edition.

Zebulon Pike, U.S. army officer and explorer for whom Pikes Peak in Colorado was named. In 1805 Pike, then an army lieutenant, led a 20-man exploring party to the headwaters of the Mississippi River with instructions to discover the river s source, negotiate peace treaties with Indian tribes, and assert the legal claim of the United States to the area. Pike traveled 2,000 miles by boat and on foot from St. Louis, Missouri, to Leech and Sandy lakes, in… Read More
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Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America. To Which are added, the Conquest of...
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Account of the Russian Discoveries Between Asia and America. To Which are added, the Conquest of Siberia, and the History of the Transactions and Commerce Between Russia and China

by Coxe, William (1747–1828)

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xxii+[1]+344+[14]+[2 ad] pages with 4 folding engraved maps and charts (General Map of the Russian Empire. 29.7x58.5 cm.; Krenitzin's and Levasheff's Voyage to the Fox Islands in 1768 and 1769. 20x58.5 cm.; Chart of Synd's Voyage towards Tschukotskoi Noss. 43x43.5 cm.; Chart of Shalauroff's Voyage. 11x33 cm; Lacking is the engraved view of the Chinese frontier town of Maimatschin, generally found facing page 211), appendix and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/2") bound in half leather with five raised spine bands in gilt ruling with black label in gilt over marbled boards. Second edition revised and corrected.This second edition of Coxe's important overview of Russian discoveries in the arctic, has, as Lada-Mocarski notes, "substantially the same contents and makeup" as the first edition of the same year. The work is largely a compilation and translations of accounts of Russian discoveries after those of Bering and Tchirikoff in 1741, supplementing the work of Mueller, with whom, along with P.S. Pallas,… Read More
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An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from...
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An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his Officers, who, in August 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a Packet belonging to the Honourable East India Company

by George Keate (1729-1797)

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xxvii+[direction to the binders]+678 pages with frontispiece, 15 plates (one folding) and 2 maps (ne folding). Folio (12" x 9 3/4") bound in contemporary full leather with gilt double ruled borders, titles stamp3edstamped in gilt on red morocco spine label, extra gilt designs to spine, marbled end papers. (Hill 907 & 816) Third edition. The plates include a frontispiece portrait of Captain Wilson by James Heath (1757-1834), portraits of Abba Thule and Lee Boo, the later drawn by the daughter of the poet George Keate who composed the present work and other island subjects dran by John Plott and engraved by Henry Kingsbury.In 1783, the East India Company packet, the Antelope out of Macao was shipwrecked on the Pelew islands (now Pelau or Belau in the western Carolines, in Micronesia). All the crew were saved and were the first Europeans to make contact with these islanders. They were lucky in that there was a Malay there, shipwrecked the year before, who was able to act as interpreter. Captain Henry… Read More
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The Adventure and Exploration Library of Steve Fossett Part 1 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers No. 624

The Adventure and Exploration Library of Steve Fossett Part 1 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers No. 624

by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

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120 pages with color photographs and maps. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition.
Leslie Hindman. Auction date October 31, 2018. Softcover auction catalogue number 624. Library of Steve Fossett. James Stephen Fossett (1944-2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
He collected works in the fields of circumnavigation and yachting, including 18th– and early 19th-century accounts of voyages around Australasia, the Pacific Northwest, and the Arctic. His library also includes landmark works about voyages by sea devoted to the discovery of the Northwest Passage and the North Pole. Sir John… Read More
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Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the narrative of a residence of six years on the...
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Adventures on the Columbia River: Including the narrative of a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: Together with a journey across the American continent

by Ross Cox (1793–1853)

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2 volumes with half-titles. xxiv+368 pages; viii+400 pages with 1 wood-engraved illustration a sketch map of the junction of the Columbia and Okanogan Rivers on page 83 and appendix. Royal octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in half leather with six raised spine bands with red labels with gilt lettering over marbled boards. (Cowan, p.59; Field 376; Forbes II, 775; Hill (2004) 390; Howes c822, aa.; Judd 47; Peel 83; Pilling, Proof-sheets 915; Sabin 17267; Streeter sale 3702; Tweney 89, 10; Wagner-Camp 43:1.) First British edition preceding the American edition.
Ross Cox was a fur trader for the Pacific Fur Company. In 1811 he sailed form New York, around the Horn, to Hawaii, and on to the Columbia River, exploring inland to Montana along the Clark Fork and Flathead Rivers. For six years he lived on the frontier--and beyond--in a violent world of white and red men, bears and wolves, frostbite, and starvation. He wasn't a hero, but he was a survivor, and a sharp observer who wrote one of the best firsthand… Read More
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Journey Route First European to Cross North America
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Journey Route First European to Cross North America

by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490-c1559) edited by Cleve Hallenbeck

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326 pages with maps, charts (many folding), bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2") x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1018 copies printed. First edition. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios y comentarios ("Shipwrecks and Commentaries"). Cabeza de Vaca is sometimes considered a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans that he encountered. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper, corners bumped, spine ends… Read More
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Antonio de Ulloa y la Nueva Espana: Descripcion Geografico-fisica de una parte de Nueva Espana de...
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Antonio de Ulloa y la Nueva Espana: Descripcion Geografico-fisica de una parte de Nueva Espana de Antonio de Ulloa, y su Correspondencia privada con el virrey don Antonio Maria de Bucareli

by Francisco de Paula Solano Pérez-Lila (1930-1996)

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clx+426 pages with frontispiece, tables, 20 plates (one folding), bibliography and indexes. Thick royal octavo (9" x 5") bound in beige cloth with black label and silver lettering to spine. Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliograficas Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico, Series Fuentes, number 2. Limited to 2000 copies. First edition.This publication gathered facts and unpublished works of Antonio de Ulloa, one of the most relevant scientists and intellectuals of the Spanish Illustration. The present work rescues the mostly ignored brief presence (1776-1778) of this marine scientist in colonial Mexico and his scientific production through his documents: the study titled "Descripción de la Nueva España" and the transcriptions of his private correspondence (more than 150 letters) with Virrey Antonio Maria Bucarelli, archives kept at Real Academia de Historia (Madrid) and the Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla).Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795) was a Spanish general, explorer, author, astronomer, colonial… Read More
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55
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Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55

by Kane, Elisha Kent (1820-1857)

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2 volumes.[2 ad]+463+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and maps; [2 ad]+467 pages with frontispiece and two titles, woodcuts, plates and appendices. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in brown cloth with black labels in gilt lettering to spine, marbled end pages. Later printing, first published in 1856.Elisha Kent Kane, American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845. Educated as a physician, Kane became a naval surgeon in 1843. After the Arctic search for Franklin, he made plans for his own attempt to find Franklin and also to establish whether or not there was an open sea around the North Pole. Leaving New York City on May 31, 1853, he sailed aboard the Advance to northwestern Greenland and entered the sea now called Kane Basin. The ship became icebound, but the party accomplished much geographic, meteorologic, geologic, and other scientific… Read More
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Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator
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Bibliography of Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., Circumnavigator

by Merle Kirkpatrick "M K" Beddie compiler

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xv+894 pages with an addenda and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Second edition revised.
The most authoritative bibliography of Cook.
Beddie is essential for anyone interested in Cook.However, some items were missed as their existence or relevance was not realised. Where now known, they have been included here.
The list attempts to be comprehensive but it is probable that some (many?) titles have been overlooked. Items will continue to be added as details are located. Please let me know about omissions.
Where a work has been published in different countries or has undergone new or revised editions, these are added. Entries are in alphabetical order. Where up to three main authors are known the entry is organised by the surname of the first or principal author. Where four or more, or no authors can be established the entry is organised by the first word of the title. For title entries, the definite… Read More
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Biographia Nautica: or, Memoirs of Those Illustrious Seamen, to whose Intrepidity and Conduct the...
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Biographia Nautica: or, Memoirs of Those Illustrious Seamen, to whose Intrepidity and Conduct the English are Indebted

by John Campbell (1708-1775) and John Kent

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5 volumes: 520 pages with frontispiece, tables and six plates; 492 pages with tables, 479 pages, 587 pages, 504 pages with nine plates. Octavo (8" x 5") bound in leather with raised spine bands and black labels with gilt lettering to spine. Complied by John Kent, principally from Campbell's Lives of the Admirals (Hill page 358) First Dublin edition.A London man of letters, Campbell was quite successful with his numerous works of an historical and biographical nature. He collect a large and valuable library. He first published his Lives of the Admirals in four volumes in the years 1742 to 1744. There were several later editions. From 1744 to 1748 he compiled and published what became known as Campbell's enlarged edition of John Harris's Complete collection of voyages and travels, originally published in 1702-1705. Campbell also made numerous important contributions to the Biographia Britannica under the signatures E and X, including his own noble Scottish ancestors, the Campbells. A memoir of him was… Read More
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A Brief Narrative of The Danish Mission on the Coast of Coromandel

by Baron Alanson Stow (1801–1869)

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ii+126 pages. Duodecimo (5 3/4" x 3 1/2") bound in grey cloth with black lettering to spine. First edition.Coromondel is the Dutch pronunciation of "Karimanal", a village in the Sriharikota island in the north of Pazhavercadu (Pulecat Lake). Pazhavercadu (Pulecat) was an early Dutch settlement along with Masoolipatnam in present-day Andhra Pradesh. There is a Dutch Cemetery belonging to the seventeenth Century at Pulecat. It is said that the first Dutch ship stopped here for fresh drinking water, and upon asking the name of the place Karimanal was spelled as Corimondal (K replaced with C and d inserted). This work by the Reverend Baron Stow of Boston is a short history of the proselytizing of this region from the first Catholic missionaries to the Protestants until the late 1700. The author was never in the region but gathers from data accumulated for this work.Condition:Some damp staining and foxing throughout, lacks the maps, rebound in modern cloth else better than good.
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A Brief Summe Of Geographie
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A Brief Summe Of Geographie

by Roger Barlow (c1483-1553) introduction by Eva Germaine Rimington "E G R" Taylor

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lvi+210 pages with frontispiece, tables, folding map, genealogy chart, appendix, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria to the covers and blind stamped ruled edge in original jacket. Edited with an introduction and notes by E G R Taylor. Hakluyt Society Second Series Number LXIX (119). First edition.
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The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402, by...
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The Canarian, or, Book of the Conquest and Conversion of the Canarians in the Year 1402, by Messire Jean de Béthencourt, Kt., Lord of the Manors of Bethencourt, Reville, Gourret, and Grainville de Teinturière, Baron of St. Martin le Gaillard, Councillor

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2+[statement of accounts]+[1 blank]+[4]+lv+229 pages with frontispiece, map, illustration and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated and Edited by Richard Henry Major Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, First Series, Number 46. First edition.Jean de Béthencourt was a French explorer who in 1402 led an expedition to the Canary Islands, landing first on the north side of Lanzarote. From there he conquered for Castile the islands of Fuerteventura (1405) and El Hierro, ousting their local chieftains (majos and bimbaches, ancient peoples). Béthencourt received the title King of the Canary Islands but he recognized King Henry III of Castile, who had provided aid during the conquest, as his overlord. The Canary Islands were apparently known to the Carthaginians of Cadiz. The Roman writer Pliny the Elder called them "the… Read More
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The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846: The Journals of Charles Sturt
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The Central Australian Expedition 1844-1846: The Journals of Charles Sturt

by Charles Napier Sturt (1795-1869) edited by Richard C Davis

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lxxi+366 pages with color frontispiece, additional color plate, 3 half tone plates, map, appendices, bibliography and index. Small quarto (10" x 7") issued in original dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria blind stamped in gilt on the cover. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Third Series, Number 10. Edited by Richard C Davis. First edition.In August 1844, a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt lumbered out of Adelaide, administrative seat of the young colony of South Australia. The Seventeen-man expedition had just been feted at a public breakfast. Soon after, it turned north toward the center of the continent. Among the procession of saddle horses, bullocks, sheep and wagon-loads of scientific equipment and provision for a year, rolled a light cart on which sat a boat. While many geographers had given up te notion of an inland sea lying in Australia's interior, Sturt had not. he set out to find it, doggedly certain that he would… Read More
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Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the...
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Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California, in 1853

by Gwinn Harris Heap (1817-1887)

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136+46 ad pages with frontispiece, 11 of 12 illustrated lithograph plates (some in color), tables and appendices. Octavo (9" x 5½") bound in original blindstamped cloth with spine lettered in gilt; housed in custom cloth slipcase. (Cowan, p 273. Howes H-378. Sabin 31175. Streeter Sale 3177. Graff 1837. Wagner Camp 235.) First Edition.
Well-illustrated first-hand relation of Western travel. The map, "Map of the Central Route from the Valley of the Mississippi to California. Compiled & drawn by G.H. Heap," not in all copies is not present here. Also lacking plate XI, Crossing Laguna Creek.
Gwinn Harris Heap, a draftsman, legal indexer, diplomat, and camel agent, born in Chester, Pennsylvania delineated views of the West printed by P. S. Duval in the 1850s. From 1846 to 1855 Heap was employed as a clerk in Washington, D.C., where he compiled the cumulative index to the first edition of the "United States Public Statutes at Large" In 1853 he traveled across the country with his cousin Edwin Fitzgerald… Read More
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Charting Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies a Mirrored in Maps 1660-1900

Charting Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies a Mirrored in Maps 1660-1900

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48 pages with maps. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition.
An exhibition at the library in conjunction with the 2010 Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of cartography August 2010 through January 2011.
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Colin Robertson's Correspondence Book, September 1817 to September 1822

by Edwin Ernest "E E" Rich (1904-1979) editor

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cxxxi+372+[xiii list of member] pages with frontispiece, appendix, and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Head end pages in gilt. Hudson Bay Record Society Volume II. Limited to 550 copies. First edition. Colin Robertson (1783-1842) was an early Canadian fur trader and political figure. In 1803, he had joined the North West Company, leaving it in 1809. Robertson then travelled to England, where he became a merchant at Liverpool. In 1814, he returned to Canada in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company, leading an expedition reestablish the company in the area around Lake Athabasca. Robertson stopped in Manitoba to rebuild Fort Douglas, which had been burnt down by the North West Company. In the meantime, John Clarke continued on to the Athabaska region with the remainder of the expedition but was eventually taken prisoner by the North West Company. Unable to come to an agreement with Robert Semple, the new governor of Assiniboia,… Read More
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A Collection of Voyages round the World: Performed by Royal Authority. Contaning a complete...
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A Collection of Voyages round the World: Performed by Royal Authority. Contaning a complete historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken for making New Discoveries, &c viz

by Cook, James (1728-1779) etal

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4 of 6 volumes. Volume 1: i-ix]-372 pages with 23 plates, including frontispiece plate of Cook, and 4 folding maps; Volume II lacking; Volume III: [793]-1184 pages with 11 plates, including frontispiece of Possession Bay, and 5 fold out maps; Volume IV: [1185]-1546 pages with 26 plates, including frontispiece of Woman, Child and Man of Van Diemen's Land, and 6 folding maps; Volume V: [1547]-1938 pages with 30 plates, including frontispiece of A View of Huaheine, and 8 folding maps; Volume VI lacking. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original full leather with red labels to spine with gilt lettering. Abridged by George William Anderson. An earlier Large folio edition by Anderson was published earlier. This edition originally issued in 80 weekly parts, and also called the Large octavo edition. (M K Beddie: 39) First edition of the bound edition.Captain James Cook RN was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of… Read More
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The Columbia River; or, Scenes and adventures during a residence of six years on the western side...
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The Columbia River; or, Scenes and adventures during a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky mountains among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: together with a journey across the American continent

by Ross Cox (1793-1853)

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2 volumes. xx+333 pages; vi+350 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. (Wagner Camp 43:3; Howes C822; Sabin 17267; Hill 390) The second London edition, preceded by the first London edition of 1831 and the first American edition of 1832, with a slightly different title.Ross Cox arrived in New York as a teenager. His arrival coincided with preparations for The Beaver, a supply ship owned by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, to embark on a voyage to the west Coast of North America. Cox, who had an adventurous spirit signed on as a clerk with the company and set sail in October 1811. The Beaver arrived at Fort Astoria trading post on the Columbia River in May 1812. Less than two months later, Cox and three other clerks left with fur trader John Clarke to set up a trading post adjacent to the North West Company's Spokane House. Cox returned to Fort Astoria in May 1813, only to fine that financial and other difficulties caused by the war… Read More
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