Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
GREELY'S COPY (CANADA.) Mackenzie, Alexander. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. Frontispiece portrait. [2 of 4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages. 4to, library binding, moderate wear; lacking all three maps (facsimiles laid in), lacking half-title, errata leaf chipped on fore-edge, minor foxing, scattered pencil annotations in an unknown hand including a drawing of a person on page xciii; later illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. London, 1801

Additional Details

first edition of Mackenzie's classic transcontinental journey, more than ten years in advance of Lewis and Clark. This copy was later the property of Arctic explorer Adolphus W. Greely, who led the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition from 1881 to 1884. Books on Ice 2.1; Howes M133 ("b"); Sabin 43414; TPL 658.