Voyages in the Northern Pacific...
Honolulu: Thos. G. Thrum, 1896
Sm. 8vo, x, 134, vi (index and ad.)pp. Original white printed wrappers, backstrip chipped at head and foot but a very good bright copy preserved in a blue cloth slipcase.
§ First separate publication of an important account. "A “Narrative of several trading voyages from 1813 to 1818, between the northwest coast of America, the Hawaiian Islands and China, with a description of the Russian establishments on the northwest coast.” Hill notes that it contains much interesting information regarding Hawaii and the abortive Russian settlement on Kauai. Corney also witnessed the burning of Monterey, and has much to say about the early Boston traders in the northwest." (Ten Pound Island of their copy). Cowan, p. 143 ("many unusual details regarding the state of that coast at this time.") Hill 375. Judd 46. Hunnewell p. 33. Howes C-779. Forbes 4726. Item #125722
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