4to (271 x 210 mm). 17 engraved plates (3 folding); 5 engraved folding maps (the large map with tear crossing image repaired verso). (One plate with tear, some spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf (worn, stained). Provenance: 18th-century annotations to a few leaves; armorial bookplate obscured; Oliver (bookplate on rear pastedown)

Second edition of this account of the Pacific Northwest, a voyage undertaken by the newly-formed King George's Sound Company to establish a fur trade between the northwest American coast and China. The text of Dixon's voyage is by William Beresford, the supercargo aboard the Queen Charlotte, written in the form of letters to a friend in London, but edited by Dixon who added the introduction, the appendix, and the maps. This copy with contemporary annotations, possibly by a member of the expedition, on 3 leaves discussing the positions of the voyages led by La Perouse and Mears, and later discussing a 1788 encounter: "August 1788 - Capt. Duncan met Capt. Mears and Capt D. said that Capt. Dixon would give him no stores, wh. the sloop (only 50 tons) was much in want of and same... The voyage of the Princess Royal 50 tons from England round the Horn to Vancouver was very wonderful." Cox II: 27-28; Forbes 161; Hill 117; Howes D-365; Lada-Mocarski 43; Sabin 20364; Streeter VI: 3484; Wickersham 6574.