A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes

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A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes

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in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes

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• A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific ocean, and round the world : in which the coast of north-west America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed : undertaken by His Majesty's command, principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, and performed in the years 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, in the Discovery sloop of war, and armed tender Chatham, under the command of Captain George Vancouver : in three volumes

Publication

• London, Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, 1798

Note

• Edited by the author's brother, John Vancouver who wrote the dedicatory epistle addressed to King George III on pages [5]-[7] at the beginning of volume 1
• Volume 1: [8], xxix, [9], 432 pages, I-VII leaves of plates; volume 2: [10], 504 pages, VIII-XI, XVIII leaves of plates; volume 3: [10], 505, [3] pages, XII-XVII leaves of plates
• Signatures: volume 1: pi4 a-d4 A2 chi1 B-3I4; volume 2: pi2 A2 chi1 B-3S4; volume 3: pi2 A2 chi1 B-3S4 [3T]2
• "A list of the plates contained in the ... volume, with directions to the binder" inserted following the "Contents" in each volume; "A list of the plates contained in the folio volume" on verso of inserted leaf in volume 1)
• Errata: volume 3, pages [506]-[508]

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

cartographic image

Content type code

cri

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Dimensions

32 cm (4to) + 1 atlas ([16] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, maps ; 59 cm (folio))

Extent

3 volumes

Lccn

01009573

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Note

Spec. Coll. copy: three quarto text volumes bound in 18th-century polished calf, rebacked; triple gilt filets; gilt lozenges in spine panels; gold-stamped dark green leather spine label with title "Vancouver's Voyages. Vol. I[-III]. 1798;" red and green marbled endpapers; inner gilt dentelles. Armorial bookplate of George Wilbraham on front pastedown, with his motto "In portu quies;" illustrated bookplate on front endleaf of Robert Ernest Cowan, featuring the sailing ship "San Carlos 1769;" Cowan's library inkstamp in left margin of page [5] at beginning of volume 1 ("Cowan Library, 1936, 4 v."). Printed dealer description on front pastedown for this copy. The large folio atlas (shelved separately in "triple oversize" stacks) is bound in three-quarters calf and green marbled paper boards; gilt arms on upper board of Sir Simon R[ichard] B[rissett] Taylor, 2nd Baronet of Lysson Hall, Jamaica; his armorial bookplate on front pastedown, with his motto "Malgre le tort;" Cowan's "San Carlos" bookplate on front pastedown. Housed in a modern brown cloth phase box; in modern mottled calf and tan marbled paper slipcase; gold-stamped spine title on case "Vancouver Voyage of Discovery."

Other physical details

illustrations (engravings), maps

Record ID

3394294

System control number

• (OCoLC)54529835
• ucoclc54529835