MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- PORTLOCK, N. & G. DIXON. Reis naar de Noord-West kust van Amerika. Gedaan in de jaren 1785, 1786, 1787 en 1788 door de Kapiteins Nathaniel Portlock en George Dixon. Amst., M. Schalekamp, 1795. xii, (4), 265, (1) pp. W. fold. engr. map of the Northwest coast of America and 9 (of which 8 fold.) engr. plates dep. Indians and Indian tools 4to. Cont. hcf. w. marbled boards w. red ti. label. (Bind. carefully restored, new endpapers, some staining in places, but a good copy w. ample margins).
First Dutch edition of this important account of a trade mission by Portlock and Dixon to the North-West coast of America from 1785 until 1788, which contributed much to the knowledge of the Americas in Western Europe. When reports of the lucrative fur trade on the North-West coast of America reached England, it was decided to send a two-vessel expedition under the command of the captains Portlock and Dixon. Both captains were with James Cook on his third voyage. After Guernsey and Madeira, they stayed on the Falkland Islands, via Cape Horn they reached the Sandwich Islands, as the Hawaiian Islands were then called by Cook. There they stayed a long time and afterwards went to America via China. - Cf: Sabin, 64395; Tiele, 878.€ 500
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