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Title: Journal of Voyages and Travels in the Interiour [sic] of North America, Between the 47th and 58th Degrees of North Latitude, Extending from Montreal Nearly to the Pacific Ocean... Illustrated by a map of the country Author: Harmon, Daniel Williams Place: Andover Publisher: Printed by Flagg and Gould Date: 1820 Description: 432 pp.; errata leaf pasted on rear flyleaf. Portrait frontispiece; engraved folding map. (8vo) 20.7x12 cm (8¼x4¾"), period full sheep, spine ruled in gilt, leather label on spine. Housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. First Edition. Harmon entered the service of the North West Company in April of 1800. He traveled to Lake Winnipeg, then to Assiniboine, where he stayed for seven years. He later went to Fort Williams, Athabasca, and New Caledonia. Includes an extensive vocabulary of the Cree language. The map, "Map of the Interior of North America, Engraved for Harmon's Journal, Annin & Smith Sc. Boston," shows the northern part of the United States and Canada to the Pacific Ocean. It measures 19x46 cm (7½x18"). With the small leather bookplate of Neva and Guy Littell, and old bookplate of Franklin Circulating Library of Troy, NY. Also on the front pastedown is an indecipherable ownership signature. Provenance: Booked Up, 5/80 References: Graff 1786; Howes H-205; Sabin 30404; Wagner- Camp 17; Streeter 3692; Field 656; Stathern 245; Burpee, Search for the Western Sea. Lot Amendments Condition: Some minor darkening and soiling to contents; map creased, some edge wear, tape repairs on verso with some bleeding to map recto; very good. Item number: 271847