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BARRINGTON, Daines Miscellanies by the Honourable Daines Barrington. London, J. Nichols, 1781

Quarto, two portraits, two maps (one folding), and five genealogical tables (one folding); a fine copy in modern panelled and speckled calf antique.

First edition of this collection of miscellaneous pieces which includes a significant account of a Spanish voyage, Maurelle's "Journal of a Voyage in 1775, to explore the coast of America, northward of California". This is the only contemporary English version of the important Spanish voyage in the Santiago and the Sonora, sent out by the Viceroy of Mexico, to the Northwest coast of America.

'The Spanish were particularly secretive about any discoveries made by them in North America and did not, of course, publish this journal... Barrington, however, secured a copy of the original manuscript...' (Lada-Mocarski). He also drew up the map here from the latitudes and longitudes shown in the journal: it covers the Pacific coast from Cape de Corrientes in Mexico to Cape St Elias in Alaska.

Barrington's book includes another important exploration piece, "Tracts on the Possibility of Approaching the North Pole", later reprinted as a separate edition.
Cowan, p. 420; Hill, pp. 13-14; Lada-Mocarski, 34; Sabin, 3628; Streeter (Sr.) sale, 2445.

$A4850

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