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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 / by John ...

Catalog Data

Author:
Meares, John 1756?-1809  Search this
Combe, William 1742-1823  Search this
Subject:
Felice (Ship))  Search this
Iphigenia (Ship)  Search this
Nootka (Ship))  Search this
Physical description:
viii, [12], xcv, [1], 372, [108] p., [26] leaves of plates (9 folded) : ill. (stipple engravings, aquatints), maps, port. ; 31 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Northwest Coast of North America
Vancouver Island (B.C.)
Pacific Ocean
Northwest Passage
Date:
1790
M.DCCXC [1790]
Notes:
First edition.
Tables and appendices on last [108] p.
Printed by "logography" method; a form of letterpress designed to accelerate composition.
Compiled by W. Combe from the papers of J. Meares.
Some copies have a comma after "esq" on the t.p.; some have a period (Cf. ESTC).
"Voyage of the Iphigenia, Capt. Douglas, from Samboingan, to the north west coast of America": p. 287-372.
Errata: p. [xcvi].
ESTC (RLIN) T98966
Contents:
Preface -- An introductory voyage of the Nootka -- Capt. Meares, from Calcutta, to the north west coast of America, in the years 1786, and 1787 -- Voyages to the north west coast of America, in the years 1788, and 1789, &c
Topic:
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Call number:
F879 .M48 1790
F879.M48
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_79355