Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 456

Price Realized: $ 24,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
(TRAVEL.) Myers, John. The Life, Voyages and Travels . . . Detailing his Adventures during Four Voyages round the World, his Various Enterprizes on the Coast of South America, and Exhibiting a Most Instructive Description of the North-West Trade. 8vo, original paper-backed boards, worn, partial early manuscript spine label; minor foxing. London, 1817
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Myers describes two decades of adventures in the Pacific and elsewhere from 1793 to 1814. He was first impressed into the British Navy, but spent most of his career as a captain of mercantile and privateering vessels. Among the many places discussed here are Alaska, Hawaii, the Galápagos Islands, China, Kamchatka, and Australia (where he recognized a chief constable as a notorious English pickpocket). Despite the global scope of the book, the subscriber list suggests that the bulk of the copies were sold in Myers's native Ireland. Ferguson I:686; Forbes 469; Hill 1213; Howes M933 ("b"); Lada-Mocarski 73; Sabin 51631.