[THE STREETER COPY] - NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING'S STRAIT, to Co-Operate with The Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, ... in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. [In Two Parts] by Beechey, Captain F.W. [Frederick William] - 1831

London: Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. THE STREETER COPY: See "The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the Late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, ... Volume Six ... New York: Park-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1969." Sixteenth Session, Tuesday, April 22nd. Item No. 3517. Two volumes. The so-called Admiralty edition in a quarto format, preceding the octavo edition of the same year, 28.5 cm., untrimmed. Original brown cloth, paper spine labels. Inscribed on inside front covers: "From the Author." and "The Gift of the Author." Armorial bookplates of Sir Henry Hotham and his son, Beaumont Hotham, and signatures of latter dated 1885, and with Streeter's tiny oval plate with his initials. Sir Henry Hotham was a vice-admiral, who, in 1831, was appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean and on 4 July 1831 was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. Vol. 1: xxi, [3], 392. With Erratum slip inserted at page 1; Vol. 2: [viii], [393]-590, [591]-742, [2] - publ. adverts. With 23 plates in total and 3 maps (2 folding). Scattered light foxing, mostly on plates and facing pages; Covers worn, backstrips faded, corners a bit bumped, frayed, and rounded, skillfully rehinged, spine labels darkened with chips to the label of vol. 2 affecting the 'P' and final 'C' in 'Pacific'. Overall, a wonderful, clean set with a great provenance. Sabin 4347; Hill (2) 93; Hill (1) p.19: "Captain Beechey, near Point Barrow, Alaska, and Sir John Franklin had arrived within fifty leagues of each other when the latter was compelled by weather to return. Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern voyages and relates to extensive visits to Pitcairn Island, the Tuamotu Archipelago, the Society Islands and Tahiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Macao, Okinawa, and the coast of California. His book provides an important account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American conquest and gives his impressions of the missionaries in San Francisco. Beechey describes the Eskimos of the north and relates his meeting with John Adams, last survivor of the mutiny on the "Bounty", who gave Beechey a lengthy account. In the course of his voyage, Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific." . SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Quarto.