Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans

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Los 130 | Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans
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Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans

Alexander Mackenzie, 1801

MACKENZIE, Alexander (c.1764-1820). Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; in the Years 1789 and 1793. London: T. Cadell, et al., 1801.



First edition of the first transcontinental overland narrative. Large, untrimmed copy. Mackenzie's work is a classic of North American exploration. "[It] describes the extraordinary travels of the author from 1789, when he discovered the Mackenzie River, until 1793, when he crossed the continent to the Pacific in British Columbia and returned. Besides a narrative of his travels, Mackenzie also provides an excellent history of the fur trade in Canada, as well as vocabularies of several Indian languages. The 'Map of Mackenzie's track from Fr. Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean' was a milestone and, as Wheat says, "at once questions began to be raised about the now patent inadequacies of all prior maps of the American Far West.' A cornerstone in any collection of North American travel and exploration" (Reese). Reese, Best of the West 22; Howes M-133 ("b"); Hill 1063; Sabin 43414; Streeter sale 3653.



Quarto (289 x 215mm). Half title, frontispiece portrait, 3 folding maps, one of which hand-colored in outline, and errata leaf (offsetting to maps and toning, a very pale dampstain at front; first map with a long repaired tear and some minor staining, second two maps with large reinforcements on the versos, slightly affecting text in a couple of places). Deckle edges preserved. 20th century half calf (light rubbing).

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