A voyage around the world; but more particularly to the north-west coast of America: . performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon. ... By Captain George Dixon.
William Beresford
Category
Books
Date
1789
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3051226
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix,[3],360,47,[1]p., [21] leaves of plates (8 folded) . ill.., maps, music, port.. . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signature (Strongitharm) illegible: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7704; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; five raised bands; spine gilt ruled and spine label gilt lettered: "Dixon's Voyage".
Makers and roles
William Beresford Captain George Dixon (1748?–1795) Captain Nathaniel Portlock (1748-1817)