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BEECHEY, FREDERICK W. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait.<> 3 maps (2 folding), 23 plates. 2 parts in one. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 calf, worn at edges; front hinge cracked; foxing to the plates, small 350x400 mm portion clipped from title (not affecting text), lacks the publisher's ads but with the errata slip following the title page to part 2; bookplate on the front pastedown (Bassett Jones). first edition.<> Howes B309; Sabin 4347; Hill, page 19. London, 1831
"Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates to extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. His book provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco"--Hill.<
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