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Ellis, Henry

Lot 3073
15.12.2017 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 18536
Lot 3073 | Ellis, Henry
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CHF 200
Ellis, HenryVoyage de la Baye du Hudson : fait en 1746, 1747 Pour la découverte du passage de nord-ouest...traduit de l'anglois D. M. Henri Ellis...Agent des propriétaires pour cette expédition. Paris: Séb. Jorri (impr. par Ballard fils). 2 Bde. 8°. Bd.1: LVI, 182 S., (2) Bl., 1 gef. Kte., 1 gef. Ill.; Bd. 2: 319 S, (7) gef. Taf. HLdr. Bd. (ber.u. in den Gelenken gebr.). - Tls. fingerfl., die Karte in den Falten hinterlegt, die übrigen Ill. Gut erhalten.
Sabin 22313.Französische Übersetzung (Gottfried Sellius +1767) der englischen OAusgabe von 1746. Henry Ellis, der spätere königlicher Gouverneur von Georgia (1757–1760), war Mitglied der Gesellschaft für die Entdeckung der Nordwestpassage und nahm an der Expedition als Mineraloge und Hydrograph teil. Der erste Teil enthält die Geschichte der Hudson's Bay Company und der früheren britischen Expeditionen, der Expeditionsbericht enthält u. a. auch naturwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen (Verhalten von Ebbe und Flut) und Schilderungen der Eskimos, ihres Lebens und ihrer Sitten. Der Weg durch die Hudson Bay wurde als aussichtslos erkannt, was für lange Jahrzehnte die weiteren britischen Erkundungen in diese Richtung behinderte
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