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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. 19 engraved and 4 lithographed plates; 3 maps, 2 of them folding. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 straight-grain morocco gilt, moderate wear; varying foxing on the plates and maps. 19th-century armorial bookplates of Chistopher Cole. London, 1831
Second octavo edition of a work first published the same year in quarto format. The Blossom was dispatched by the Admiralty as a relief ship for the Parry and Franklin expeditions but did not rendezvous with either. Beechey's book is notable for its descriptions of the northwest coast of Alaska as well as for content relating to Pitcairn Island, Hawaii, and California. Arctic Bibliography 1228 note; Forbes 774; Howes B309; Lande 944.
