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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: R. Noble for T. Cadell, jun. & W. Davies, Cobbett & Morgan, and W. Creech of Edinburgh, 1801. 4to. (10 9/16 x 8 5/16 inches). Half title, [4], viii, cxxxii, 412pp. Errata leaf at rear. Frontispiece portrait, 3 folding engraved maps. Full contemporary calf. Spine flat, richly gilt in compartments. Red morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on the exploration of North America. Alexander Mackenzie was 'the first white man to cross the continent, and his journal... is of surpassing interest' (Wagner-Camp). The present work is the first published account of the two exploring expeditions that Mackenzie made on behalf of the North West Company as part of their attempt to break the Hudson Bay Company's stranglehold on the fur trade. The author was born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in 1764, was in North America in 1774, was employed as a clerk in the fur trade in 1779, and by 1787 he was a wintering partner in the Northwest… Read More

London: Printed for T.Cadell and W.Davies., 1801., 1801. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., viii, cxxxii, 412, [2]errata. complete with half-title. 3 large folding engraved maps (1 coloured in outline). engraved frontis. portrait. Uncut in original bds. (spine repaired, new spine label, half-title, title & dedication leaves washed, large folding map of America washed, backed & reguarded, title foxed & browned & with long tear repaired affecting a few letters, some scattered foxing & light browning throughout). First Edition of "the earliest expedition made by a white man in this direction. His investigations, although pursued at so early a period of Arctic exploration, were remarkable for their accuracy; Sir John Franklin more than once expressed his surprise at being able to corroborate their correctness in his own explorations. Some Indian vocabularies are included.". (Sabin) Mackenzie's journals recount his two expeditions undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in its… Read More

London: Printed for T.Cadell and W.Davies..., 1801. First Edition of “the earliest expedition made by a white man in this direction. His investigations, although pursued at so early a period of Arctic exploration, were remarkable for their accuracy; Sir John Franklin more than once expressed his surprise at being able to corroborate their correctness in his own explorations. Some Indian vocabularies are included...". (Sabin) Mackenzie's journals recount his two expeditions undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in its attempt to break the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly of the fur trade. The first expedition, in 1789, from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska down Slave River to Great Slave Lake and then down what is now known as the Mackenzie River to the Arctic constitutes the first recorded trip to the Arctic from the Canadian prairies; the second, in 1792-93, from Fort Chipewyan along the Peace River, over the Rocky Mountains, and down the Bella Coola River to the Pacific, is distinguished… Read More