The second edition is the only complete edition and generally regarded as the best one. The 1986 introduction added much information of importance and interest. – Hill. Samuel Eliot Morison called it the best bit of sea literature of the period. (See also Smith II, 1632. Howes P-484 (aa). Hill 1373.)
Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean… in the United States Frigate Essex, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814.
Porter, David. Two volumes. Second edition. New York: Wiley & Halsted, 1822. [A modern edition was published in Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1986, with an Introduction by R. D. Madison, Edited and with Notes by R. D. Madison and Karen Hamon.].
- 1812-1814 American Naval Cruise to the Pacific commanded by David Porter (aboard frigate Essex).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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A Voyage in the South Seas, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814. With Particular Details of the Gallipagos and Washington Islands.
Porter, David. London: Richard Phillips& Co., 1823.
- 1812-1814 American Naval Cruise to the Pacific commanded by David Porter (aboard frigate Essex).
- Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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A one-volume edition of the following year seems to cover the same voyage as the 1822, but it is hard to discover that through the Hathi indexing. It might be worth comparing them for any changes or omissions.