PORTLOCK, NATHANIEL. 1748-1817.
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789.
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789.
4to (295 x 229 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, large folding map, 5 engraved folding maps and 13 engraved plates and maps, including 5 hand-colored plates of birds. Contemporary calf gilt. Rebacked, some offsetting to plates.
Provenance: William Fraser (contemporary ownership inscription); Wolfgang A. Herz,(bookplate, his sale, Christie's New York, 9th December 2009, lot 244).
FIRST EDITION. The first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest and first English voyage to Hawaii after Cook's death. In May of 1785 Portlock was given command of the King George in an expedition to the Northwest coast of North America with the smaller ship Queen Charlotte, commanded by George Dixon. After exploring the coast, they sailed for the Hawaiian Islands. In November 1787 the two ships sailed separately for Macau, before returning to England the following February. Portlock and Dixon collaborated on this work. Portlock's descriptions of the Indians and Russians he encountered "broaden the perspective" (Hill) of Dixon and Beresford's accounts. Portlock, who took part in Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific, also includes an account of Cook's death as described to him by a Hawaiian who was witness to it. Forbes 177; Hill 1376; Howes P-497; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Wagner Northwest Coast 738.
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A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789.
A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte.... London: John Stockdale and George Goulding, 1789.
4to (295 x 229 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, large folding map, 5 engraved folding maps and 13 engraved plates and maps, including 5 hand-colored plates of birds. Contemporary calf gilt. Rebacked, some offsetting to plates.
Provenance: William Fraser (contemporary ownership inscription); Wolfgang A. Herz,(bookplate, his sale, Christie's New York, 9th December 2009, lot 244).
FIRST EDITION. The first commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest and first English voyage to Hawaii after Cook's death. In May of 1785 Portlock was given command of the King George in an expedition to the Northwest coast of North America with the smaller ship Queen Charlotte, commanded by George Dixon. After exploring the coast, they sailed for the Hawaiian Islands. In November 1787 the two ships sailed separately for Macau, before returning to England the following February. Portlock and Dixon collaborated on this work. Portlock's descriptions of the Indians and Russians he encountered "broaden the perspective" (Hill) of Dixon and Beresford's accounts. Portlock, who took part in Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific, also includes an account of Cook's death as described to him by a Hawaiian who was witness to it. Forbes 177; Hill 1376; Howes P-497; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Wagner Northwest Coast 738.
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