Myers, John

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Description

The Life, Voyages and Travels of Captain Myers, detailing his Adventures during Four Voyages round the World... and exhibiting a most instructive description of the North-West Trade. London and Cork: Printed for Longman, Hurst, [&c.], and John Bolster, 1817
Paper

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (214 x 133mm.), iv pp., [viii pp. list of subscribers], [v]-x, [11]-410pp., contemporary half calf, full gilt spine, black label, marbled boards and edges, slightly rubbed, joints cracked

Literature

Borba de Moraes p.605; Ferguson 686; Forbes 469; Hill (2004) 1213; Howes M933; Lada-Mocarski 73; Sabin 51631; not in Streeter

Catalogue Note

The work details Myers' enterprises in the northwest American fur trade. "The list of articles in demand on the northwest coast of America (pp.408-409), and his remarks for the benefit of any would-be trader there, are most interesting and useful" (Lada-Mocarski).

The work also covers various voyages to Australia and New Zealand, India and Japan, the coast of South America, with visits to the Hawaiian Islands, China, New South Wales, California, the Galápagos Islands and Staten Island.

Rare. Two hundred and thirteen subscribers are listed, of which over 100 are from Cork. The poor quality of the paper, the typeface and the printing suggest that the book was produced by a small provincial printer, very probably in Cork.