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8vo. Pp. 708. Quarter bound in black pebble-grained morocco over textured black cloth, titles stamped in gilt between seven blind-stamped bands on the spine, dark blue marbled edges and endpapers. Light foxing to outer leaves, cover edges rubbed, else crisp and bright with solid binding. Chiefly sought after for Manning's "Nootka Sound Controversy," a majestic, award-winning piece of scholarship. Also includes "Bibliographical Notes on Early California" by Robert Ernest Cowan; "The Exploration of the Louisiana Frontier, 1803-1806" by Issac J. Cox; "The Campaign of 1824 in New York" by C.H. Rammelkamp; "The Chief Currents of Russian Historical Thought" by Paul Milyoukov. In a nutshell, the Nootka Sound Controversy, which nearly begat war between England and Spain, was the intense spat between Captains Dixon and Meares,who commanded respective vessels in the nascent fur trade, both arriving at the Northwest Coast in the summer of 1786. Meares was, in effect, poaching, inasmuch as he was a British citizen serving British merchants living in India -- yet he was sailing under a Portuguese flag -- a transparent effort to sidestep the monopolistic right of the East India Company to trade in the Pacific. Howay called the salvo "an inky conflict in the tradition of Addison v. Pope." Dixon, who had first sailed to the Northwest Coast on Cook's third voyage, took umbrage at the "facts" presented in Meares' "Voyage" (1790). Dixon asserted, rightfully, that the account was embellished, if not partly fabricated.Thus sprang forth an exciting late-18th C. London dust-up, concerning the events that occurred at Nootka Sound on the West Coast of Vancouver Island -- a remote, undeveloped and, for the most part, unknown, place on the other side of the world. One can imagine the scuttlebutt in the clubs and coffee houses of Boswell's London: "Now, where were Dixon and Meares when this took place?" The essay is cited in SOLIDAY: III, 432. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7083
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