The Hill Collection Of Pacific Voyages At The University Of California, San Diego

KENNETH HILL

Publication: William Reese Company, 2004, New Haven

Second edition, revised and enlarged. Thick 4to. Light blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, yellow front and rear endpapers, xxiii [blank], 792 pp., frontispiece, foreword, Kenneth Evan Hill as a book collector, preface to the original edition, publishers' note and acknowledgements, list of abbreviations, references, chronological index, general index. A standard reference work about Pacific voyages undertaken before the mid-nineteenth century. It is an extensive gathering of books that document early voyages of exploration and discovery in the Pacific. Fine, bright copy without dust jacket, as issued.