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MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, Sir. Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans. Engraved frontispiece portrait; 3 large folding engraved maps. [4], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2] pages, including half-title and errata leaf at end. 4to, modern 1/2 morocco, spine slightly faded; maps offset, the first bound upside down, short clean tear in the others, scattered foxing, blank corner of 2U1 restored. London: R. Noble for T. Cadell et. al., 1801
first edition of the first narrative of a North American transcontinental crossing, and an important and accurate source for the fur trade and for Indian languages and customs of the region. The book describes expeditions from Fort Chipeway to the Arctic Sea in 1789, and from the New Establishment on the Peace River to the Pacific Ocean in 1792. Books on Ice 2.1; Hill 1063; Howes M133; Lande 1317; Streeter Sale 3653.
