Beschreibung:

Meares, John. VOYAGES MADE IN THE YEARS 1788 AND 1789, FROM CHINA TO THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED AN INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE PERFORMED IN 1786, FROM BENGAL, IN THE SHIP NOOTKA; OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE OF A NORTH WEST PASSAGE; AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE TRADE BETWEEN THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA AND CHINA; AND THE LATTER COUNTRY AND GREAT BRITAIN. LONDON: PRINTED AT THE LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS FOR J. WALTER, 1790, FIRST EDITION, STIPPLE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MEARES BY C. WESTLAND AFTER W. BEECHEY, 10 ENGRAVED MAPS AND CHARTS (3 FOLDING), 17 PLATES (MOST SEPIA AQUATINTS, 7 FOLDING), LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS, ONE OR TWO FLAWS AFFECTING TEXT AS AT E1, SHORT TEAR TO FIRST MAP, SOME SPOTTING, [SABIN 47260; WAGNER, NORTHWEST COAST, 758-766; ABBEY, TRAVEL, 594; HILL, P.195; STREETER VI 3491] Dixon, Captain George. Remarks on the voyages of John Meares Esq. in a letter to that gentleman. London: Printed for the author and sold by John Stockdale, 1790, first edition, half-title, [Sabin 20361], without final advertisement leaf Meares, John. An answer to Mr George Dixon late commander of the Queen Charlotte, in the service of Messrs. Etches and Company... in which the remarks of Mr Dixon on the voyages to the north west coast of America, &c. lately published, are fully considered and refuted. London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter, 1791, first edition, half-title Dixon, Captain George. Further remarks on the voyages of John Meares Esq. in which several important facts, misrepresented in the said Voyages, relative to geography and commerce, are fully substantiated. To which is added, a letter from Captain Duncan, containing a decisive refutation of several unfounded assertions of Mr Meares and a final reply to his answers. London: Printed for John Stockdale and George Golding, 1791, first edition together 4 works in one volume, 4to (292 x 230mm.), contemporary speckled calf, roll-tool border gilt, flat spine richly gilt, morocco label