Lot 39: MEARES, JOHN. 1756?-1809. Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 178

MEARES, JOHN. 1756?-1809. 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. London: printed at the Logographic Press and sold by J. Walter, 1790.