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MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence . . . to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. 1801
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, modern 1/2 calf; 2 folding maps encapsulated in tissue, the other map tissue-backed, offsetting to the title from the portrait, text a bit toned. Errata leaf in the rear. London: R. Noble for T. Cadell et. al., 1801
- Notes: 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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