MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacif

MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. Portrait frontispiece, 3 large folding maps. [1], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf, minor wear, front joint split but threads still intact; offsetting to the maps as usual, scattered minor foxing, repaired tear to one map; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Errata leaf in the rear. London: R. Noble for T. Cadell et. al., 1801

first edition of the first account of a north american transcontinental crossing. An important and accurate source on the fur trade and on the Indian languages and customs of the region. The work includes accounts of two expeditions: the first in 1789 from Fort Chipeway to the Arctic Sea and the second in 1792 from the New Establishment on the Peace River to the Pacific Ocean. Graff 2630; Howes M133; Lande 1317; Pilling 2384; Sabin 43414; Streeter Sale 3653; Wagner-Camp 1:1; Field 967.
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