Beechey, Frederick W.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions ... in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831



2 volumes, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 211 x 131 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map, 2 other folding engraved maps, 19 engraved plates, 4 folding lithographed plates; foxing and offsetting to a number of plates and maps. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, smooth spines elaborately gilt with olive morocco spine labels, plain endpapers, red-sprinked edges.

Cowan, p. 42; Ferguson 1418 (4to ed.); Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 773; Howes B309; Lada-Mocarski 95 (4to ed.); Zamorano 80 4

First octavo edition, published the same year and with the same imprint as the first, quarto, edition that included several scientific appendices. Captain Beechey's Narrative encompasses the whole theater of the Pacific Ocean and contains important material on Alaska, the California coast, San Francisco, and Monterey. Beechey also made land at Tahiti, Easter Island, Mangareva Island, Pitcairn Island (where he interviewed the last survivor of the Bounty mutiny, John Adams), and Hawaii. A handsome set.