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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 errata leaf at end. 4to, contemporary tree calf, handsomely rebacked; portrait foxed, offsetting onto title, maps lightly offset, each with short clean tear in inner corner, second and third maps offsetting onto facing pages. Armorial bookplate of Sir William G. Pearce. 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. Hill 1063; Howes M133; Lande 1317; Pilling 2384; Streeter Sale 3653; Wagner-Camp-Becker 1:1.
