Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 58

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(ARCTIC.) Mackenzie, Alexander. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. 3 folding maps (the first with hand-colored routes), frontispiece portrait. [4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages. 4to, modern 1/2 leather-look by Houthen Bindery; repaired closed tears to first 2 leaves, some separations at folds and tape repairs to maps, errata leaf chipped on fore-edge; with half-title; inked library stamps on maps stubs and several leaves, inked withdrawal stamp on rear free endpaper. London, 1801
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first edition. Mackenzie and his party completed the first voyage of exploration across North America more than ten years in advance of Lewis and Clark. Having arrived at a fort on Lake Athabasca, AB by standard trade routes, they departed westward in October 1792 and arrived at an inlet of the Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola, BC in July 1793. Also includes Mackenzie's journal of his 1789 expedition north from Athabasca to the Arctic Ocean. Prefaced by an extensive history of the fur trade, the first ever published, which is generally attributed to the explorer's cousin Roderick Mackenzie. "The maps are the earliest of certain parts of Canada"--Lande 1317. Howes M133 ("b"); Sabin 43414; TPL 658.