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Graham York Rare Books
225 High Street
Honiton, Devon
EX14 1LB
United Kingdom
+44 7831 138 011
Graham York
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
UNUSED LUXURIOUS LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Large folio, 35cm x 47cm, circa 1880, circa 200 pages, full crushed red morocco, ornately gilt with scallop edges, foliate border, flower, thistle, rose, lozenges, fleurs de lys and similar designs in panels on spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, binder's blind-stamp at foot of spine "De Andreis Romeo - Roma".
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
Aside from a couple of scratches on the binding, this is a wonderful, sumptuous, totally unused, library €950.00
One of many interesting bindings that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
MINIATURE
HISTORY OF THE BIBLE
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
1820, Lansingburgh, W. Disturnell, pp[v] + 6-256, 15 woodcut plates, contemporary black straight-grained roan, gilt lettered spine, with two gilt-tooled floral decorative panels. There appear to be several variants of the 1820 issue, with slightly differing numbers of plates and pagination. €500.00
One of many miniature and small books that we will be bringing.
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
TWO FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS
THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BIBLE; CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: WITH A COPIOUS AND ORIGINAL SELECTION OF REFERENCES TO PARALLEL AND ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES, EXHIBITED IN A MANNER HITHERTO UNATTEMPTED...
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
No date, circa 1890, London, Samuel Bagster and Sons, two volumes, pp(x) + 586, four coloured maps; (iv) + 210 + (viii) + 136, full black pebble-grained morocco, gilt clasps, all edges gilt in matching box with inset pocket for attached lid.
Fore-edge paintings by Margaret Costa, the Old Testament featuring Adam and Eve and the serpent, the New Testament featuring a different scene.
€1250.00
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
Captain Nathaniel Portlock.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
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, CAPTAINS PORTLOCK AND DIXON. EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY COPPER-PLATES. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HIS MAJESTY.
1789, London, first edition, 4to, printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, and George Goulding, James Street, Covent Garden, pp xii, 384, xl, large folding map and nineteen charts and plates complete, full contemporary calf, modern spine ornately tooled in gilt rose and compass designs, lettered in gilt on a red label.
Nathaniel Portlock (circa 1748-1817), ship's captain, maritime fur-trader and author. He entered the Royal Navy in 1772 as an able seaman, serving in HMS St. Albans. In 1776, he joined HMS Discovery as master's mate and served on the third Pacific voyage of Captain James Cook. In 1785 he formed a partnership with George Dixon, after they were appointed by the King George's Sound Company to command the King George and the Queen Charlotte respectively, explicitly to develop the fur trade.
Ownership bookplate of John Corner, Ruswarp. Corner was a ship's chandler and insurance broker from Whitby.
The boards a little rubbed, a few trifling marks in the text, otherwise a very fresh copy. €4950.00
We will be bringing a large selection of travel books.
IMPORTANT AMERICAN TRAVEL BOOK
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