EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE
BARR, William and Glyndwr WILLIAMS (editors). Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747. Volume I. The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 [–Volume II. The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747]. (2nd series, nos 177 and 181.) London: The University Press, Cambridge for The Hakluyt Society, 1994-1995.
2 volumes, octavo (216 x 135mm), pp. I: xii, [2 (blank)], 333, [1 (blank)], [4 (blank ll.)]; II: [2 (blank)], xv, [1 (blank)], 393, [1 (blank)], [4 (blank ll.)]. Half-tone frontispieces. 4 double-page and 17 full-page maps and plans, and 8 full-page illustrations in the text. (Some very light marginal toning, as often.) Original blue cloth, upper boards with Society’s device in gilt, borders ruled in blind, spines lettered in gilt, original dustwrappers, not price-clipped. (Dustwrappers slightly rubbed and marked, as often, edges slightly creased.) A very good set.
First edition. These two volumes describe two voyages made in search of a Northwest Passage in the mid-eighteenth century, both at the instigation of the Irish politician, colonial administrator, and writer Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765), who was Governor of North Carolina from 1754 until 1765. The first volume contains documents relating to the voyage of Christopher Middleton with the Furnace and the Discovery, together with details of the ensuing controversy between Middleton and Dobbs, and the second documents the voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith with the Dobbs Galley and the California.
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth, 2/177 and 181; E.L. Rasor, English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature, 216.
£49.50
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