Oct 21, 2004 - Sale 2018

Sale 2018 - Lot 274

Price Realized: $ 1,380
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MEARES, JOHN. Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the N. W. Coast of America. Portrait frontispiece, 13 maps and plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, worn, covers loose, spine labels chipped; scattered foxing, a few removed library stamps. London, 1791

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Second Edition and the First Octavo Edition. "Pioneer English voyage to this coast, supplying the chief basis to British claims to Oregon"--Howes M469; Sabin 4726; Graff 2735; Hill 1127.