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MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, Sir. Voyages from Montreal . . . to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. 1801

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, Sir. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 3 large folding engraved maps. [4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 4to, contemporary calf gilt with morocco lettering piece, rebacked; scattered marginal foxing, heavy offsetting from portrait onto title, maps offset and offsetting onto adjacent leaves. London: R. Noble for T. Cadell et. al., 1801

  • Notes: first edition of the first narrative of a north american transcontinental crossing, and an important and accurate source on the fur trade and on Indian languages and customs of the region. The book comprises accounts of expeditions from Fort Chipeway to the Arctic Sea in 1789, and from the New Establishment on the Peace River to the Pacific Ocean in 1792. Hill 1063; Howes M133; Lande 1317; Pilling 2384; Streeter Sale 3653; Wagner-Camp-Becker 1:1.
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