The Journals and Letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie
London & New York: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society, 1970.
Hardcover.
A chronicle of Sir Alexander Mackenzie's expeditions across the North American continent in search of a route westward to the Pacific Ocean on behalf of the North West (Fur) Company. Included here is Mackenzie's preface to the first edition of his Voyages, a general history of the fur trade from Canada to the North-west, Mackenzie's journals of a voyage from Fort Chipewyan to the Arctic Ocean in 1789, McKenzie's journal of a voyage from Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean in 1793, Mackenzie's letters (1786-1819) illuminating his character and career in the fur trade, and a note by Mackenzie on Arrowsmith's map of his tracks to the North Sea and Western Ocean. With an introduction and notes by W. Kaye Lamb.
Item #902182ISBN: 0521010349
6-1/4 x 9-1/4", blue cloth, viii, 551pp, bibliography, index, frontis. portrait, 4 folding maps, 2 double-page maps, facsimile title page from the first edition of Mackenzie's Voyages (London, 1801), 2-page letter in Mackenzie's handwriting - one of few extant.
Joint at verso frontis. cracked, tight, square, clean of owner's marks, very good in price-clipped dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $75.00