Voyages from Montreal, On the River St. Laurence, Through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of The Fur Trade of that Country - COMPLETE in Two Vols.
London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802. Three-quarter leather. 8vo. Two volumes. Pp. xiv, 290; 332. Frontis. portrait of the author, with tissue guard. With three large fold-out maps. Marbled endpapers. Rebound ca. 1920s in three-quarter brown leather over brown cloth boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine, raised bands. Mild to moderate foxing throughout; heaviest on the "Fort Chipeyan to North Sea" map. That and the Pacific Ocean map with old reinforcement to leaf stub on verso. First fourteen leaves of Vol. I with a slight scallop at top edge. Bindings tight. Withal, a well-preserved set. Very Good. Item #12129
Second edition of the first recorded transit across the North American continent. HOWES M-133; SABIN, 43415; SMITH, 6383; WAGNER-CAMP, 1:2.
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