BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F. W. Beechey . . . in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28 . . . New Edition. 23 engraved plates; 3 folding maps. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary brown straight-grain morocco, rebacked retaining worn remnants of original backstrips, endpapers renewed; engraved matter variously foxed. London, 1831
"Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands, the Mangareva (Gambler) Islands, and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California . . . Beechey's work provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest . . . At Pitcairn Island, Beechey met with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the Bounty, who gave Beechey a lengthy account"--Hill 93 (original edition, same year).
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