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[Pacific Northwest] Mackenzie, AlexanderBiblio.com
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
1801réf. 9122London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies; Cobbett & Morgan; and W. Creech by R. Noble 1801. First edition. 4to 4 viii 412 2 errata cxxii pp with "General History of the Fur Trade" following the Voyages section and errata leaf. Complete with half title often lacking frontis portrait three large folding engraved maps. Fine 1/2 polished calf tooled in blind and lettered in gilt on spine marbled boards endpapers and page edges. Few stains and foxing to prelims most notably at the inner margin of the frontis and title pages. Otherwise scattered light foxing mainly marginal and more pronounced on the final dozen leaves or so. Maps quite nice with typical offsetting from folds some foxing and toning. A very good copy in attractive binding housed in a custom oatmeal cloth Solander box lined with green felt gilt spine label. A cornerstone work on early Pacific Northwest exploration being the first account of crossing the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man some dozen years before Lewis and Clark. This text also represents the first published account of the fur trade which was attributed to Roderick Mackenzie. A nice copy in attractive binding. Howes M 133. Sabin 43414. Streeter 3653. . Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies; Cobbett & Morgan; and W. Creech, by R. Noble unknown
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