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PORTLOCK, Nathaniel, Captain. A Voyage round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: performed in 1785[-]... 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte. London: for John Stockdale, 1789. 4o (309 x 238 mm). Engraved portrait, 6 folding engraved maps and 13 engraved plates INCLUDING FIVE COLORED PLATES OF BIRDS, by P. Mazell after J. Woodcock. (Portrait frontispiece and 3 following leaves detached, the last ragged, first folding chart with 2 fold tears repaired, plates offset to text.) Contemporary tree calf (rebacked, badly worn and upper cover detatched). FIRST EDITION. Hill, p. 239; Lada-Mocarski 42; Sabin 64389.
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Please note that the illustration is from lot 171, not lot 172.