Views of Parts of the Coast of North West America. 9. W. Alexander delt. from Sketches made on the spot. London: Published May 1st 1798, by R. Edwards New Bond Street, J. Edwards Pall Mall and G. Robinson Paternoster Row. J. Fittler sculp.

• Main Authors: Vancouver, George, 1757-1798, Alexander, W.; Fittler, J.
• Other Authors: Rumsey Collection
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1798
• Subjects: Sandwich Islands; Pacific; New Zealand; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2281~200024; http://www.davidrumsey.com/rumsey/Size1/D0020/00201024.jpg

Uncolored views including Punto de los Reyes and the Bay of Sir Francis Drake, Port of St. Francisco, Point Pinos, Santa Barbara, the entrance to the Port of St. Diego, and Cape Colnett. Atlas, without title, as issued. Contains ten charts and six sheets of views (profiles of parts of the coastlines). Compare the English charts to the French issues in the French Neptune of 1820. Vancouver's charts were the most accurate of the area for many years into the 19th century. In addition to the eight Northwest Coast charts, there is a "Chart shewing part of the S.W. Coast of New Holland" (with inset charts of New Zealand) and "A Chart of the Sandwich Islands." Maps are without color and bound into half leather burgundy cloth covered boards with "Atlas To Vancouvers Voyage" stamped in gilt on a red leather label on the spine. Streeter calls the accounts of the voyage, "One of the most important accounts of the exploration of the Pacific Northwest and New Zealand, and valuable source of information about Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands in the last decade of the eighteenth century." Voyage accounts are bound in three volumes, all in half leather with green cloth boards. "Vancouver's Voyage" and the volume number embossed in gold on spine. P197; Streeter 3497; Sabin 98443; Cowan 1933; Wagner 853-860.