VOYAGES MADE IN THE YEARS 1788 AND 1789, FROM CHINA TO THE N.W. COAST OF AMERICA: WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE PERFORMED IN 1786, FROM BENGAL, IN THE SHIP NOOTKA. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, 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, 1791. Second edition. 8vo. Two volumes: xii, lxxii, 363; (2), 332, (63, appendix) pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author (outer edge a little trimmed), 13 maps and plates, some folding. John Meares (c. 1756-1809) was a British naval officer..... More