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HEARNE, SAMUEL. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. 1795
HEARNE, SAMUEL. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by Order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the Discovery of Copper Mines, a North West Passage, &c. In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. 4 folding engraved plates; 5 folding engraved maps. xliv, 458, [2] pages. 4to, 306x246 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip; engraved matter variously foxed and/or offset, repaired clean tears in blank outer margin of a few text leaves. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Baron Grantham. wide-margined copy. London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795
- Notes: first edition. "Hearne was the first white man to travel overland to the Arctic Ocean, and he is credited with the discovery of the Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River system . . . This book owes its publication to Captain Jean-François de La Pérouse, who captured Fort Albany, Hudson Bay, and found Hearne''s manuscript"--Hill 791. Books on Ice 1.5 ("among the classics of polar survival"); Lande 1220; Streeter Sale 3652.
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