Ellis, Henry A VOYAGE TO HUDSON'S-BAY, BY THE DOBBS GALLEY AND CALIFORNIA... FOR DISCOVERING A NORTH WEST PASSAGE. LONDON: H. WHITRIDGE, 174 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), [ii], [v]-xxviii (i.e. A8, a4, b2), 336pp., engraved folding map, 9 plates, most folding, contemporary French red morocco gilt, lettered on upper cover "Ed.", marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges A fine copy. The first part contains a history of English voyages to discover the north-west passage and the rise of the Hudson's Bay Company. The second describes an expedition under Captain Moor and Captain Smith, financed by private subscription (notably by Arthur Dobbs), on which Ellis was hydrographer, surveyor and mineralogist. The expedition was instigated by the North-West Committee, a body of Dobbs's supporters, in the years following Captain Middleton's abortive attempt to find a passage, and the subsequent acrimonious dispute between Dobbs and Middleton (see lots 400 and 402), described here as "long and warm" (p.99). This voyage proved, finally, the non-existence of a north-west passage from Hudson's Bay, though the third part contains arguments in favour of a passage, and concludes with "where it might be expected" (pp.327-333). The work contains valuable information on the customs of the Eskimos, until then little known.
Ellis, Henry A VOYAGE TO HUDSON'S-BAY, BY THE DOBBS GALLEY AND CALIFORNIA... FOR DISCOVERING A NORTH WEST PASSAGE. LONDON: H. WHITRIDGE, 174 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), [ii], [v]-xxviii (i.e. A8, a4, b2), 336pp., engraved folding map, 9 plates, most folding, contemporary French red morocco gilt, lettered on upper cover "Ed.", marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, gilt edges A fine copy. The first part contains a history of English voyages to discover the north-west passage and the rise of the Hudson's Bay Company. The second describes an expedition under Captain Moor and Captain Smith, financed by private subscription (notably by Arthur Dobbs), on which Ellis was hydrographer, surveyor and mineralogist. The expedition was instigated by the North-West Committee, a body of Dobbs's supporters, in the years following Captain Middleton's abortive attempt to find a passage, and the subsequent acrimonious dispute between Dobbs and Middleton (see lots 400 and 402), described here as "long and warm" (p.99). This voyage proved, finally, the non-existence of a north-west passage from Hudson's Bay, though the third part contains arguments in favour of a passage, and concludes with "where it might be expected" (pp.327-333). The work contains valuable information on the customs of the Eskimos, until then little known.
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