Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(ALASKA.) Portlock, Nathaniel. A Voyage Round the World; but more Particularly to the North-West Coast of America. 6 folding maps, 14 plates. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; marginal dampstaining to frontispiece plate only, a few pages foxed, quite nice internally; 1864 inscription on flyleaf. London, 1789

Additional Details

"The first commercial voyage to the Northwest Coast and the first English voyage to visit Hawaii after that of Captain James Cook"--Forbes 177. Extensive notes on his dealings with the Indians he met, including vocabularies. Field 1231; Hill 1376; Howes P497 ("aa"); Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389; Streeter sale VI:3489. Provenance: Sotheby's Earl of Harborough sale, 10 June 1864, to J.C. Plowden (flyleaf inscription).