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, Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N

Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First American edition. Boards rubbed with some loss from spine label and light spots to boards, foxed throughout, Oxford bookstore bookplate on front endpaper. 1832 Hard Cover. xi, 493 pp. 8vo. 24-page publisher catalog bound in following text. Originally published in two volumes in England in 1831, this first appearance in the U.S. excluded the plates, maps, and appendices present in those versions, and diminished the type size, allowing the remaining content to fit in one volume. The main text is unabridged, and some footnotes are added. Sabin 4347: "Captain Beechey and Sir John Franklin had arrived within fifty leagues of each other, when the latter was compelled by the weather to return. One of the most valuable of modern voyages, containing a most interesting visit to Pitcairn's Island, the coast of California, etc." Howes B-309: "Interesting accounts of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest." Arctic Bibliography 1229: "Another edition without plates, maps or scientific appendices, but with main text reprinted in smaller type and a few new footnotes.