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DIXON, Captain George

A Voyage Round the World...

George Goulding London, 1789. Quarto, with 21 maps and plates (a number folding), with the half-title; tear to the first folding map and some inconsequent offsetting; a fine uncut copy with generous margins in the original boards, paper spine rubbed, spine lettered by hand; preserved in blue cloth bookform box. First edition: a remarkable copy in superb original condition.

Dixon's account of his voyage in the Queen Charlotte is dedicated to Joseph Banks, and is a companion to Portlock's account of the same voyage; both men had voyaged with Cook, Dixon as armourer of the Discovery, and Portlock would go on to sail with Bligh.
Forbes, 'Hawaiian National Bibliography', 161; 'Hawaii One Hundred', 8; Hill, 117; Judd, 53; Kroepelien, 300 (German edition only); Lada-Mocarski, 43; Wagner, I, p. 207 etc., II, 732-735.

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