Voyages.- Beechey (Capt. F.W.) Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, 3 engraved maps (2 folding and one double-page), 23 plates (most engraved, some aquatint, 4 double-page lithographs of bones and a beehive), folding maps torn and repaired, title of vol.1 a little soiled, plates foxed, lithographed plates with water-staining to corner, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpapers, modern calf decorated in gilt and blind, spines gilt with brown and green roan labels, [Hill 93; Sabin 4347], 8vo, 1831.

⁂ First octavo edition of "one of the most valuable of modern voyages." (Hill)
Beechey explored the Pacific up to and through the Bering Strait with the aim of connecting with the overland and maritime expeditions exploring a possible northwest passage led by Sir John Franklin and William Parry respectively. They did not meet but Franklin came within 146 miles of Beechey. The work includes much information on Eskimos, the Californian coast and the Pacific islands, particularly details on the Bounty mutiny taken from the narrative of John Adams, the last surviving mutineer on Pitcairn Island.