http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0315360
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Meares, John, 1756?-1809
issued: 2016-09-28
issued: 1790
description: "Some copies issued on larger paper with coloured plates. Streeter noted variations in copies and describes one with an extra plate on the Philippines. Meares commanded the Felice Adventurer and Iphigenia, Captain Douglas, on a trading voyage for the Associated Merchants. The seizure of his ships by the Spanish at Nootka led to an international crisis, eventually resolved by the Nootka Convention of 1790. His exaggerated claims concerning his exploits and hardships were strongly attacked by George Dixon (no. I48). The account of voyages was edited by William Combe from Meares's papers, ref. D.N.B. The appendices contain the official instructions for the voyage, and various documents concerning the seizure, including Meares's Memorial to the House of Commons which was also published separately (no.363)." -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: U
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extent: viii, xcv, 372 pages : illustrations (folded), maps (folded) ; 30 cm
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note: 'wibrnr flf t~l n*». R..C. G<^. c C-*. Z ' It* rr V O Y A G E S Made in the Year s 1788 a nd 17 CHINA TO THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. AN INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE A Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Noqtka; OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROBABLE EXISTENCE A NORTH WEST PASSAGE; THE TRADE BETWEEN THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA AND CHINA AND THE LATTER COUNTRY AND GREAT BRITAIN. By JOHN M E A R E S, Ess, L 0 N D 0 N: [INTED AT THE E«Jf(gt«f5iC JPttflSs RIGHT HONBLE LORD HAWKESBlf'RT, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE> 6fc. &c. THOSE COMMERCIAL ERUDITION AND OFFICIAL STATION, RENDER HIM THE BEST JUDGE, THE MOST HONOURABLE PATRON, OF ALL WORKS WHICH TEND TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS, AND ENLARGE THE BOUNDARIES, OF BRITISH COMMERCE; THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT, BY HIS LO&DSHIP's MOST OBLIGED, AND FAITHFUL HUMBLE SERVANT, JOHN M E A R E S. R HP II E wiihes of friends,—the political circumftances of the# moment,—and, as I have been made to believe, the public expectation, have induced me to add the following Voyages to thofe which have already been published, to improve the navigation and extend the commerce of the Britifh Empire.—I do not pretend to be the rival,—but rather confider myfelf an humble follower of. thofe eminent navigators whofe reputation is become a part of the national fame; and though I may be permitted, as it were, to envy their fuperior talents and advantages, I moft fin- cerely add my feeble teftimony to that merit, which has ranked them among the illuirrious names of my country. Indeed I feel it a duty I owe myfelf, as well as to moderate the fanguine expe&ation which may have arifen refpe&ing the hiftory of tfioTe Voyages in which I have been engaged, and may be faid to have conduded, to obferve, that they were Voyages of Commerce, and not of Discovery ; and that whatever novelty they may poffefs, or original information they may bellow, arofe out of, and form, as it were, an incidental part of a commercial undertaking. The…
note: Page 39 misnumbered as 36. Page 120 misnumbered as 20. Page 197 misnumbered as 179. Page 209 misnumbered as 206. Includes errata. Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30634960
has type: Books
has type: Travel literature
identifier: FC3821.1 .M42 1790
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0315360
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Logographic Press
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. FC3821.1 .M42 1790
subject: Indians of North America--Pacific Coast
subject: Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific
subject: Nootka Sound controversy
subject: Northwest Coast of North America
subject: Vancouver Island (B.C.)
subject: Pacific Ocean
subject: Northwest Passage
title: Voyages made in the years 1788 and 1789, from China to the north west coast of America. To which are prefixed, an introductory narrative of a voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the ship Nootka; observations on the probable existence of a north west passage; and some account of the trade between the north west coast of America and China; and the latter country and Great Britain
type: Text