The Botany of Captain Beechey's voyage; comprising an account of the plants collected by Messrs. Lay and Collie, and other officers of the expedition, during the voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Strait, performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28.

London for Truettel & Wurtz Truettel, 1839 (only 125 copies printed), 4to (285 x 225mm), quarter brown morocco over pebbled cloth side, Original Stiff Printed Wrappers bound in, with 192pp and 40 Engraved Plates, occasional scattered foxing to plates.

First Four Parts of Ten with The Original Wrappers. Scarce.

Beechey’s Voyage in HMS Blossom explored the Pacific and Behring Straits for four years and was intended to meet up with two overland expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage to the Pacific. Neither arrived, but Beechey made good use of the trip by conducting extensive scientific explorations along the northwest and west coasts of North America (reaching and naming Point Barrow, for example) and among the islands of the Pacific. The botanical collections were described in this book by Sir William J. Hooker and his co-author Dr. George A.Walker Arnott.

The expedition visited Argentina, Chile, Easter Island, Tahiti, Hawaii, Kamchatcka, Kotzebue Sound, Mexico, California, and Macao. Thirty-seven of the plates were drawn by Hooker, initialed W.J.H in the plate, plate 20 was drawn by Captain Beechey

Nissen BBI 928; Stafleu 3001; Lada-Mocarski, 113 Pritzel 4226