Title: 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. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country Author: Mackenzie, Alexander Place: London Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al Date: 1801 Description: [4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] errata pp. Half-title, title page, and dedication leaf supplied in facsimile on old wove paper (watermarked 1799). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 large folding engraved maps (1 with hand-colored details). (4to) 27x21 cm (10½x8¼"), period half calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked preserving the original spine leather and label, spine with gilt ship devices. First Edition. Alexander Mackenzie a senior wintering partner with the North West Company, sought an overland passage from the fur-bearing regions of the Athabasca Country to the Pacific Ocean. Following Peter Pond’s speculation that the Pacific Ocean might be reached by a water route from Great Slave Lake, his first expedition in 1789 started out at Fort Chipewyan. This route did not take him to the Pacific as he had hoped, but to the Arctic “Frozen Ocean” down the river that would later become the Mackenzie River. In his second attempt to reach the Pacific, Mackenzie ascended the Peace River by canoe and on foot, and crossed over into the headwaters of the Fraser River. After being turned back by torrential currents, he and his party decided to make an overland attempt. They landed near the present site of Bella Coola, British Columbia. Mackenzie had reached the Pacific, and in so doing became the first white man to cross the American continent north of Mexico. Researchers now believe that the “Map of America… Exhibiting Mackenzie’s Track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan from thence to the North Sea, in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793” was drawn by David Thompson Hill 2: 1063; Peel 3: 55; Sabin 43414; Strathern 343; Streeter 3653; TPL 658. DCB V, 1801-20, p542. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities lightly rubbed; some scattered offsetting to the maps, as usual; first three leaves supplied in facsimile; light foxing, negligible tidemarks on a small section of the rear endpaper; overall a handsome copy, very good. Item number: 233403
Title: 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. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade in that Country Author: Mackenzie, Alexander Place: London Publisher: T. Cadell and W. Davies, et al Date: 1801 Description: [4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] errata pp. Half-title, title page, and dedication leaf supplied in facsimile on old wove paper (watermarked 1799). Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 large folding engraved maps (1 with hand-colored details). (4to) 27x21 cm (10½x8¼"), period half calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked preserving the original spine leather and label, spine with gilt ship devices. First Edition. Alexander Mackenzie a senior wintering partner with the North West Company, sought an overland passage from the fur-bearing regions of the Athabasca Country to the Pacific Ocean. Following Peter Pond’s speculation that the Pacific Ocean might be reached by a water route from Great Slave Lake, his first expedition in 1789 started out at Fort Chipewyan. This route did not take him to the Pacific as he had hoped, but to the Arctic “Frozen Ocean” down the river that would later become the Mackenzie River. In his second attempt to reach the Pacific, Mackenzie ascended the Peace River by canoe and on foot, and crossed over into the headwaters of the Fraser River. After being turned back by torrential currents, he and his party decided to make an overland attempt. They landed near the present site of Bella Coola, British Columbia. Mackenzie had reached the Pacific, and in so doing became the first white man to cross the American continent north of Mexico. Researchers now believe that the “Map of America… Exhibiting Mackenzie’s Track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan from thence to the North Sea, in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793” was drawn by David Thompson Hill 2: 1063; Peel 3: 55; Sabin 43414; Strathern 343; Streeter 3653; TPL 658. DCB V, 1801-20, p542. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities lightly rubbed; some scattered offsetting to the maps, as usual; first three leaves supplied in facsimile; light foxing, negligible tidemarks on a small section of the rear endpaper; overall a handsome copy, very good. Item number: 233403
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