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Catalogue
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America
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86. MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Tableau Historique et Politique
du Commerce des Pelleteries dans Le Canada, depuis 1608 jusqu'à
nos jours ... Paris, Dentu, 1807. $1,500
8vo; 2 ff, pp. 310, f; frontispiece portrait of the author engraved
by Adam after Lawrence. Modern half-calf; a very good uncut and
unpressed copy of this scarce work.
Sabin 43417; Leclerc 756; not in TPL. A French version of the initial
portion of Mackenzie's classic work, that dealing with the history
and commerce of the fur trade, as well as descriptions and discussion
regarding the Indians and examples of the vocabularies of the Chippewas,
Algonquins, etc.
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First Edition of this Classic Overland Account
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87. MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Voyages from Montreal, on the River
St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen
and Pacific Oceans, in the Years 1789 and 1793, with a preliminary
account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Fur Trade
of that country. London, T. Cadell, Jun. & W. Davies, 1801.
First edition. $8,250
4to; f, pp. viii, cxxxii, 412, f (errata); engraved frontispiece
portrait; 3 large, engraved, folding maps (1 coloured); recent full
faux-calf; text lightly toned; little sporadic foxing; usual offsetting
from portrait to title-page; wants half-title; a very good copy
of an important work.
Sabin 43414; TPL 658; Str. VI: 3653; Wagner-Camp 1; Field 967; Vlach
511; Graff 2630; Howes M133; Peel 25; Hill, p. 187; Cox II, p. 177;
Lande 1317; Smith 6382; Wagner-Camp 1:1; Strathern 343. Leaving
Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska in 1789, Mackenzie set out for
the Arctic Sea on the river now bearing his name, and returned the
same year. In 1793 he again set out, this time for the Pacific.
He and his party worked their way up the Peace River, the Parsnip
River, crossed the Continental Divide, and discovered the Fraser
River. They travelled down the Fraser for a bit and then struck
overland; they reached and crossed the Coast Ranges, reached the
Bella Coola River which they descended, and found themselves at
the river's mouth in a tidal inlet of the Pacific, thus completing
the first overland journey, north of Mexico, across North America.
Many of the nineteenth-century explorers who followed in Mackenzie's
tracks found his accuracy remarkable. These two expeditions were
undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in its attempt to
break the monopoly of the fur trade held by the Hudson's Bay Company.
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88.
[MAP]. [JEFFERYS, THOMAS]. A New Map of the Province of Quebec,
according to The Royal Proclamation of the 7th of October. 1753,
from The French Surveys Connected with those made after the War,
By Captain Carver, and other officers, in His Majesty's Service.
London, Sayer & Bennett, 15th February, 1776. First edition,
first state. $2,350
Engraved map; 50.1 cm x 70 cm (20¼"x27"); partial
contemporary colour; lightly age-browned but overall fine. Large
insets of "A Particular Survey of the Isle of Montreal",
"The City of Quebec", "Plan of Montreal or Villemarie",
and "Course of the River St. Laurence".
Armstrong 31; Kershaw IV:1005, plate 767; Stevens & Tree 73
(a); Goss, North America, 61; Phillips, Maps, p.729; Phillips, Atlases,
1166, #19. This important map is from the American Atlas, published
by Sayer & Bennett in 1776; it was re-published in 1777 by William
Faden in his North American Atlas. A finely-engraved and highly
detailed map at an important period of history.
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Exceedingly Scarce and Very Important
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89. [MAP]. [JEFFERYS, THOMAS]. [MEAD, BRADDOCK, alias JOHN GREEN].
A Map of the most Inhabited Part of New England containing the Provinces
of Massachusets [sic] Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of
Conecticut [sic] and Rhode Island, Divided into Counties and Townships;
The whole composed from Actual Surveys and its Situation adjusted
by Astronomical Observations. London, Thomas Jefferys, November
29th, 1774. $14,500
Copper-engraved map; 4 sheets joined together; approx. 104.5 cm
x 98 cm (approx. 41" x 38-1/2"); original outline colour;
minute loss at few folds; with two detailed insets, one of the city
of Boston and the other of Boston Harbour; with the lovely large
cartouche depicting the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock in 1630.
A lovely example of this scarce map, beautifully matted and framed.
Cumming, "British Maps of Colonial America", pp. 45-47;
McCorkle, "New England in Early Printed Maps", 774.4;
Stevens & Tree, "Comparative Cartography", 33 (e).
This is the fifth state of this work, which was first published
in 1755 and updated periodically thereafter; this map was in Jefferys'
posthumous (and notoriously scarce) American Atlas of 1775. Thomas
Jefferys (1719-71) was a leading British cartographer and publisher;
Braddock Mead (c.1688-1757) a.k.a. John Green, was an Irishman who
was imprisoned in Ireland on grounds of fraud, took on his alias
when he was released, and moved to London. He became an extremely
practiced and professional cartographer, and held his profession
to the highest level. This map contains family names of real estate
holders, as well as cartographic details of the New England states
from the latitude of 44'30 in the north to Long Island Sound in
the south, encompassing part of Maine, Rhode Island, what is now
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, northern Connecticut, and
eastern New York from north of Crown Point through Lake George and
down the Hudson River. One of the most important of North American
maps, this version was published shortly before the Revolution.
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90.
[MAP]. [TIRION, ISAAK]. Quebeck, De Hoofdstad van Kanada;
aan de Rivier van St. Laurens: door de Engelschen belegerd en by
Verdrag bemagtigd, in't jaar 1759. Np., n.d. [but Amsterdam, 1769].
$400
33.8 cm x 43.5 cm (13-1/4" x 17"); engraved map; full
contemporary colour; little browned at centre fold; otherwise very
good.
Koeman III, Tir 4; Phillips, Maps, p. 734. From Tirion's "Hedendaagsche
Historie" of 1769. With a siege plan and reference key. This
map derives from Thomas Jefferys' A Plan of the City of Quebec The
Capital of Canada, of 1760.
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