Sale 2683 - Lot 324

Burney, James (1750-1821)
A Chronological History of North-Eastern Voyages of Discovery; and of the Early Eastern Navigations of the Russians.

London: Luke Hansard & Sons for Payne and Foss [and] John Murray, 1819.

First edition, octavo; illustrated with two engraved folding maps by J. Russell; final blank present; bound in the original publisher's boards with printed spine label, all edges uncut, with the "Directions to the Binder" slip; (scattered light spotting; upper joint cracked and lower starting, some flaking to spine); 9 x 5 1/2 in.

Rear-Admiral Burney participated in Captain Cook's last two voyages, and his first-hand account of Cook's explorations in Alaska and Hawaii appears on pages 202-270 of the present lot. The remainder of the volume compiles numerous Russian, English, Dutch and Danish voyages to Alaska and the northern Russian coast. According to Hill, Burney originally intended this account to be a supplement to his Chronological Histories of the Discoveries in the South Sea.

Beddie 1657-1658; Cox II, p. 497; Hill 223; Sabin 9386.

Provenance: Richard Morgan V with ownership inscription.