Frozen River, First Edition (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Color illustrated board. with white lettering. Spine is straight. Binding is tight. Corners are sharp. Content is clean, No markings. This copy had not been read or opened. Unpaginated.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), map, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; "Bibliography": pages 327-330; and index. Subjects; Crowden, James 1954- Travel India Lad kh. Silence Religious aspects Buddhism. Lad kh (India) Description and travel. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: William Collins, 2020. 1st edition, VG+/VG. Book has wear to spine ends, one bumped corner, light wear to corners, light edge wear. 13 color photos, a two-page map. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Written in 2020 about a journey to Zangskar (in Ladakh) in 1976. Thrilling adventures in a land little touched by the outside world at the time. An isolated area with very few amenities. You learn a lot about snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures. Great read, 336 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Bookplate on front free end paper. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. Signed by Author.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), map, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; "Bibliography": pages 327-330; and index. Subjects; Crowden, James 1954- Travel India Lad kh. Silence Religious aspects Buddhism. Lad kh (India) Description and travel. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 304pp. Cover by R. B. Kitaj. Light bump to the head edge towards the spine, leaving a crease and a short, superficial split, the wrappers slightly rubbed and soiled, but sound. This copy has been signed by the author. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: Used, very good. No dust jacket. Apparent 1st printing. 5.5x8. Black embossed lettering and design on front cover plus gilt design; gilt lettering on spine. 329 pages. Cover is near fine but for two-and-a-half inch by one inch area at bottom left corner of rear that is lightened due to exposure to moisture (no other damage--no mildew or foxing; no mustiness); very slight loss of color due t o wear at tips of corners and top/bottom of spine. Interior as new--appears unread. Very nice condition. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

hardcover. Condition: Collectable, very good. 1st. Original 1886 edition/printing not a reprint. Nice condition. Hardcover bound in brown cloth with black embossed lettering and design on front cover plus gilt design; gilt lettering on spine, 329 pages. Cover has slight wear on corners otherwise cover presents as new; very slight foxing on page edges and endpapers, no marks or writing. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ; 336 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Inscribed by author. Binding tight and pages clean and crisp. Corners square and sharp. DJ clean, shiny and intact.

First Edition. Small format, 5 1/2Ó x 8 1/2Ó, 107 pages, staplebound in the upper left corner. Specially printed for distribution to members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences in consideration for nomination of the Best Screenplay. Shooting script for the film Frozen Riverl written and directed by Courtney Hunt, starring Melissa Leo, Misty Upjam, Charlie McDermott, and Michael OÕKeefe. With a trace of use to the covers, else fine. The film was nominated for Oscars for Best Leading Actress (Leo) and Best Original Screenplay.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Hurtig Edition. "One of the most remarkable and historically important journals of early North American exploration." - dust jacket. 414 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1801 edition. Fold-out maps. Top three inches of front free endpaper neatly removed. Prior owner's blind stamp atop half-title page. Very light wear to clean and unmarked book and price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 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 o.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. [2],viiii,cxxxii, 412, [2] errata leaf. 28 cm. x 22 cm. Full leather boards with decorated spine (professionally rebound). Red slipcase. Book and slipcase are in an archival acid-free box. Engraved frontispiece (portrait of Mackenzie by P. Condé after Thomas Lawrence). 3 large folded copper engraved maps, 1 hand colored (before p.1, before p.120, after p. 412). Water stain on frontispiece and on title-page (not affecting text). Small ink signature at top of title-page (Andrew Reid, 1801). Light offsetting on title page and maps; minor foxing on a few pages. This classic of North American exploration describes the extraordinary travels of the author in northwest America in 1789, when he discovered the Mackenzie River, and in 1793, when he crossed the continent to the Pacific. Mackenzie also provides an excellent history of the fur trade in Canada, as well as vocabularies of several Indian languages. A cornerstone in any collection of North American travel and explorations. "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and peculiarities has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation"; Hill, pp. 187-88: "This is the first and finest edition of one of the most important of Canadian books"; Howes M-133: "Mackenzie was the first white man to cross the continent, and his journal of this expedition is of surpassing interest"; Wheat 251. The lengthy account of the development of the fur trade in the North West is generally attributed to the author's cousin, Roderick Mackenzie. Bell M20. Hill pp. 187-88. Howes M-133. Lande 1317. Morgan p. 240. Peel 25. Sabin 43714. Smith 6382. Strathern 343. Streeter VI 3653. TPL 658. Vlach 511. Wagner-Camp 1. Winsor VIII p. 34. This first edition of Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages from Montreal documents the first cross-continent traverse, pre-dating Lewis and Clark's feat by 12 years.

Leather. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. London: T. Cadell et al., 1801. 4to. 1st edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait; (without half-title) + 1pp (title leaf) + viii (Preface) + cxxxii (A General History of the Fur Trade) + 412pp + 2pp (errata). 3 large folding engraved maps, one with hand-coloured in outline. Each map is fine condition. Period style half calf, with marbled sides. Raised bands, spine tooling, leather contrasting label. Very minor toning of frontispiece and title pages, usually found quite toned. Overall all a very nice copy indeed. The First Crossing of the Continent by a White Man. This is the classic account of Mackenzie's journeys seeking a passage from the Athabasca country to the Pacific Ocean. His first expedition from Fort Chipewyan in 1789 took him not to the Pacific as he had hoped, but down what would become the Mackenzie River. In his second attempt, he ascended the Peace River by canoe and on foot, and crossed over into the headwaters of the Fraser River and reached the Pacific Ocean at Bella Coola. This journey marked the first crossing of the continent by a Caucasian man. [Smith 42; Streeter 3653].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 412 pp. [2 errata pages] + Engraved Frontis Plt & 3 Large Beautiful FoldOut Maps, Including 1 with Hand-Colored Trip Route across the country, Orig Brn Tree-Calf Binding & Marbled e.p.,4to (8.75 x 11.2 Inches), Blk Spine Label with Gilt Title, Gilt chain Illus around edges of covers inside & out, edgewear with corners rounded. Front cover has been professionally reattached with leather so you hardly notice, Good & Tight, Interesting ink inscription dated 1856 on F e.p., 1st ed [Howes M-133] (The Maps are Fresh & Nice).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing ] ; 329 p. ; 21 cm. ; LCCN: 05-12338 ; LC: QE35; Dewey: 550 ; OCLC: 489611 ; Contents : The Gravel Pit -- Among the Glaciers -- The Hillside Spring and its Work -- The Floods of the Great Lakes -- The River Gorge -- A Walk Under the Sea -- By the Rocky Wall -- Liquid Sunlight -- Gaseous Sunlight -- Solidified Sunlight -- The Cemeteries of the Bad Lands -- Lone Burials in the Coal Lands -- Historical glimpses -- The Primeval Storm -- The World without a BackBone -- Courses of the Earths Masonry -- Among the Volcanoes -- Frozen Seas of Lava -- The Unstable Land -- The Framework of the Mountains -- Down in a Mine -- The King of Metals -- Mammalian Rule -- Anticipation and Retrospect in Life Plans -- The Reign of Ice -- The Earth Receives her King -- Retrospect ; "This work attempts to hold a position between textbooks and books of light reading. The formal textbook would not suit the class of readers addressed. The style of light reading would have been unworthy of the theme, and would not have supplied the substantial information here intended. The writer has often felt that graphic illustrations would have rendered portions of the text more intelligible, and therefore, more entertaining; but these would have enhanced the cost of the book beyond limits which for other reasons seemed desirable. The method of treatment is simple. The reader begins with the familiar objects at his very door. His observations are extended to the field, the lake, the torrent, the valley, and the mountain. They widen over the continent until all the striking phenomena of the surface have been surveyed. Occasionally, trains of reasoning suggested by the facts are followed out until the outlines of geological theories emerge. The course of observation and reasoning then penetrates beneath the surface. The various formations and their most striking fossils are described, first in descending order, to the oldest. We find here indications of heat which stimulate speculation and bring out the grounds of a nebular theory of worldorigin. From this starting point, the treatment now handles the subject in historical order, weaving into a narrative, the dry facts previously noted. Reaching the end of the history, the treatment pauses for retrospect and reflection; and here are brought to view some of the higher and more abstruse thoughts connected with the subject of the book. It is hoped the perusal of this work may impart some clear conceptions of that grand range of scientific truths with which it deals. It is hoped, also, that a relish may be stimulated which will seek its gratification in the scholarly study of works of higher range and more exacting method." ; decorative brown and black cloth with gold lettering and designs ; Signature of Lizzie Peek (1862-1923), graduate of the State Women's College in Valdosta Georgia and the daughter of Senator W L Peek (1837-1922) of Conyers, who made an unsuccessful bid for Governor of Georgia as a Farmer's Alliance candidate in 1892, when he was attacked by a mob ; FINE. Book.

First edition. A cornerstone work on early Pacific Northwest exploration, being the first account of crossing the continent from ocean to ocean, by a white man, some dozen years before Lewis and Clark. This text also represents the first published account of the fur trade, which was attributed to Roderick Mackenzie. A nice copy in attractive binding. Howes M 133. Sabin 43414. Streeter 3653. . 4to, [4], viii, 412, [2] (errata), cxxii pp, with "General History of the Fur Trade" following the Voyages section and errata leaf. Complete with half title (often lacking), frontis portrait, three large folding engraved maps. Fine 1/2 polished calf, tooled in blind and lettered in gilt on spine, marbled boards, endpapers and page edges. Few stains and foxing to prelims, most notably at the inner margin of the frontis and title pages. Otherwise scattered light foxing, mainly marginal, and more pronounced on the final dozen leaves or so. Maps quite nice with typical offsetting from folds, some foxing and toning. A very good copy in attractive binding, housed in a custom oatmeal cloth Solander box, lined with green felt, gilt spine label.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second. "First American edition." New York: George F. Hopkins, 1802. Octavo in 4s (8 1/4" x 5 1/16", 210mm x 128mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding engraved map. Bound in modern half green morocco over green cloth by Riviere and Son (signed at the lower edge of the verso of the front free end-paper). On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to the second panel, author gilt to the third, date gilt to tail. Green marbled endpapers. Top edge of the text-block gilt. A little bowed, with some sunning to the spine. Evenly tanned throughout. Repaired tears to the lower edges of 2E2-4 and the fore-edge of 2S4, not affecting the text. The fore-edges of 2Z3-4 and 2N3-4 roughly cut. The map backed on linen, with some tanning and offsetting. Ink-stamped "Ex Libris H. Leslie Smith" and ballpoint inscription "H. Leslie Smith" to the front pastedown. Presentation inscription "To Les from Annabel Christmas 1948" to the verso of the front free end-paper. Red ink Chinese eight-character seal to the recto of the first binder's blank. Ex libris of Ted Benttinen laid in. Sir Alexander Mackenzie's (ca. 1764-1820) account of his exploration of North America is the first published account of Mackenzie's two expeditions carried out on behalf of the North West Company, as it aimed to establish new trade routes from the over-saturated market of Hudson's Bay. His success in these explorations made him "the first white man to cross the continent," demonstrating his journal to be one of "surpassing interest" (Wagner-Camp). Mackenzie departed Scotland with his father in 1774, and by 1779, had secured a position with Finlay, Gregory & Co., a prominent fur trading company in Montreal. This volume offers a comprehensive history of the fur trade, alongside Mackenzie's accounts of his travels through the continent. It also provides a glossary to several Indigenous languages. The map, "A Map of America Between Latitudes 40 and 70 North, and Longitudes 45 and 180 West, Exhibiting Mackenzie's rout from Montreal to Fort Chepewyan & thenee [sic] to the North Sea in 1789 and to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793" is one of the oldest of this area. Hill crowns Voyages from Montreal "one of the most important of Canadian books." Henry Leslie Smith (1932-2018) was an English political writer and social activist. After serving in WWII, Smith moved to Canada with his wife, Friede. Smith turned to writing after the death of his son and became a frequent contributor to The Guardian and a repeat guest on BBC radio. At the time of his death, Smith had written six books with content ranging from historical and political commentary to personal memoirs of his life and loss. Theodore "Ted" Benttinen (1948-2023) was an MIT-educated oceanographer and explorer who went to both poles on research missions. Benttinen amassed a formidable collection of books of exploration, particularly strong in Pacific voyages as well as in polar accounts. The present volume was lot 176 in the Sotheby's New York 9 December 2024 sale of his library. Sabin 43415.2; not in Hill; not in Wagner-Camp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. [4]+viii+cxxxii+412+[2] pages with half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title page, (3) large folding maps, and final errata pages. Quarto (10 7/8" x 8 7/8") bound in tree calf with gilt-titled red morocco label to the spine. (Sabin 43414; Howes M133) First Edition. Sir Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America by a European in 1793.  On behalf of the North West Company, Mackenzie journeyed to Lake Athabasca where, in 1788, he was one of the founders of Fort Chipewyan. He had been sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the north-west. Thinking that it would lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho (Mackenzie River), on 3 July 1789. In 1791, Mackenzie returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. In the aftermath of the Nootka Crisis with Spain, he returned to Canada in 1792, and set out to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by two native guides (one named Cancre), his cousin, Alexander MacKay, six Canadian voyageurs (Joseph Landry, Charles Ducette, François Beaulieu, Baptiste Bisson, Francois Courtois, Jacques Beauchamp), and a dog simply referred to as "our dog", Mackenzie left Fort Chipewyan on 10 October 1792, and travelled via the Pine River to the Peace River. From there he travelled to a fork on the Peace River arriving 1 November where he and his cohorts built a fortification that they resided in over the winter. Mackenzie left Fort Fork on 9 May 1793, following the route of the Peace River. He crossed the Great Divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River, but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow a grease trail by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on 20 July 1793, at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.  Having done this, he had completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico, 12 years before Lewis and Clark. Condition: Light age wear to boards with repairs to lower board, light edgewear, and corners bumped and rubbed; spine with small chips and age cracking to leather, ends lightly rubbed, label with chip and pealing at center, joints lightly rubbed; lacking front free endpapers otherwise complete; pages toned with offsetting, patches of insect damage (sometimes substantial) on several leaves, occasional small edge chip/tear/fraying, and foxing and spotting; area of damp staining on frontispiece and title with frequent additional small or faint areas of damp staining at margins; one page with old writing otherwise pages unmarked; maps complete but with typical toning and offsetting, light scattered foxing (heavier on third), and repairs, the first with faint area of damp staining and edge chip, the second with small loss at vertical fold, the third with (2) small tears at folds. A good or better copy.

4to. (10 9/16 x 8 5/16 inches). Half title, [4], viii, cxxxii, 412pp. Errata leaf at rear. Frontispiece portrait, 3 folding engraved maps. Full contemporary calf. Spine, richly gilt in compartments. Red morocco lettering piece, marbled endpapers First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on the exploration of North America. Alexander Mackenzie was 'the first white man to cross the continent, and his journal. is of surpassing interest' (Wagner-Camp). The present work is the first published account of the two exploring expeditions that Mackenzie made on behalf of the North West Company as part of their attempt to break the Hudson Bay Company's stranglehold on the fur trade. The author, born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in 1764, was in North America in 1774 and employed as a clerk in the fur trade in 1779, and by 1787 he was a wintering partner in the Northwest Company posted to Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca. Mackenzie set out on his first expedition on 3 June 1789, armed with information and maps provided by the fur trader Peter Pond. He had decided to follow a large river flowing west from Great Slave Lake in search of a Northwest passage to the Pacific. The expedition was partially successful: on July 13, Mackenzie and his party reached salt water, but it proved to be the Beaufort Sea rather than the Pacific. After a further two years in the fur trade in Canada, Mackenzie returned to England in the autumn of 1791 in order to study navigation and astronomy: the first expedition had demonstrated to him that he needed more expertise in these areas. He returned to Canada in the spring of 1792 and made his way west to the newly-built Fort Fork, near the junction of the Peace and Smoky Rivers. In May, 1793, having spent the winter preparing Mackenzie left on what was to be his greatest journey: After a difficult passage by canoe and on foot through the Rockies, Mackenzie and his party arrived at the Pacific near Bella Coola, British Columbia on 22nd July 1793. Mackenzie returned to Grand Portage in 1794 and subsequently to Montreal where he acted as an agent for the North West Company until 1799, when he retired to England. His great achievement did not receive the wide acknowledgment it deserved until the present work was published, and his subsequent and equally important proposals drawing attention to the importance of the Pacific coast: in 1802 Mackenzie was knighted by George III, and he went on to serve as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1804 to 1808. Gagnon 2190; Graff 2630; Hill, p.187; Howes M133 'b'; Lande 1317; Morgan p.240; Peel 25; Pilling 2384; Sabin 43414; Smith 6382; Strathern 343; Streeter Sale 3653; T.P.L. 658; Wagner-Camp 1:1; Wheat Transmississippi 251.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Early 19th century Speckled brown calf with Elaborate gilt tooling to the spine. Half title 412pp + 2pp errata. Engraved frontis. 3 Large folding maps, one with hand coloured details. Viirtually no foxing to frontis and title. Bookplate to endpaper. Nice copy of an influential account as Mackenzie reached both the Arctic (Frozen) ocean and the Pacific. Mackenzie River named after him. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.

Leather Bound. First edition. 4to. 20th century fine leather binding. Folding maps with expert repairs. Wagner-Camp notes that 'Mackenzie discovered the river that now bears his name, and descended it to the Arctic Ocean in 1789. In 1793, he became the first European to cross the North American continent north of Mexico'. Peel 55: "After the preface there follow 132 pages on the history of the fur trade in the North West. Some authorities think this was written by his cousin, Roderick MacKenzie. According to the Dictionary of National Biography , Voyages , 1801, was compiled by William Combe from Mackenzie's notes. Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer, and Atnah Indian languages." Sabin 43414 calls this the "first and finest edition".

First edition. Engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 large folding maps (the map of North America hand-coloured), 2 page errata leaf. 4to., bound in handsome gilt bordered full calf, spine in panels and decorated in gilt, maroon leather and gilt spine label. A very good copy. In 1789, Mackenzie's crew which included French-Canadian voyagers, his wife and several others, paddled off in a birchbark canoe from Fort Chipewyan in Central Canada. Other canoes, navigated by Indian hunters and interpreters, followed behind. Over 100 days later, however, Mackenzie's entourage arrived back at the fort with details of another route to the Arctic Ocean, not the elusive Pacific. Although this first trip aided in mapping the northern regions of the continent, Mackenzie remained determined to find the 'Western Sea'. Therefore on May 9 1793, Mackenzie, with nine others, packed into a 25 foot canoe at Fort Fork along the Peace River for a second voyage. This time, he succeeded, and announced his arrival on a rock near Bella Coola near the Pacific by painting the following words with a vermillion and grease mixture: 'Alexander Mackenzie from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three'.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition :. Quarto hardcover in one-half leather over marbeled boards, First Edition, complete, Title + vii (Preface) +cxxxii +412pp+ errata (two pages). The frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author. Light wear to edges, spine very clean, marbeled boards, marbeled edges, hinges strong, gutters likewise, notation of being Mary Bouromeo Collection on front endpaper, faint stain on frontis, maps In nice untorn and unworn condition, else VG++ to NFINE. Contains 3 folding maps on heavy paper, one reinforced but not torn. A cornerstone of N American exploration narrative. Mackenzie became the first European to reach the Pacific by a cross country voyage in 1793, on his second attempt, the first ending in the Frozen Artic. He ended up near Bella Coola, B. C. This was years ahead of Lewis and Clark. Inquiries for pics answered quickly. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 412pp pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 296 pages; Rebound in later quarter leather with marbled boards, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt; new marbled endpapers. First American Edition. Light rubbing along joints and edges, slight wear and scuffing to boards; map foxed and split along lower fold and at intersection of other folds, no paper loss, scattered foxing throughout. Large folding map in front.

First edition. First edition. Full Leather, early 19th century binding, decorative endpapers, viii, cxxxii, 412,[2]pp. plus 3 folding maps, half-title, frontispiece portrait. Errata. "This classic of North American exploration describes the extraordinary travels of the author from 1789, when he discovered the Mackenzie River, until 1793, when he crossed the continent to the Pacific in British Columbia and returned. Besides a narrative of his travels, Mackenzie also provides an excellent history of the fur trade in Canada, as well as vocabularies of several Indian languages. The "Map of Mackenzie's track from Ft. Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean" in 1793 was a milestone and, as Wheat says, "at once questions began to be raised about the now patent inadequacies of all prior maps of the American Far West." A cornerstone in any collection of North American travel and exploration, this is the first transcontinental overland narrative."--Bill Reese, The Best Of The West, 22. "Mackenzie?s expedition departed Fort Chippewyan in northern Alberta on October 10, 1792, and wintered at a remote trading post near the modern town of Peace River. Leaving there on May 9, 1793, with five companions and two Indian guides, they reached the Fraser River in British Columbia on June 18. Taking this south past present-day Prince George, they followed its tributary known today as West Road River and took overland trails through present-day Tweedsmuir Provincial Park to Bella Coola. From here they descended the Bentinck Arm of the Dean Channel to the Pacific, which they reached July 21, 1793, midway between the north end of Vancouver Island and the modern boundary of Alaska and British Columbia. They began the return trip two days later and reached Fort Chipewyan again on August 24, 1793, having crossed overland to the Pacific more than a decade before Lewis and Clark would." "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man. The narrative portion was prepared for publication by William Combe from Mackenzie's notes. The account of the fur trade--first ever published--is attributed to Roderick Mackenzie."---Wright Howes. "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and peculiarities, has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation of them, as indeed none were better fitted to do, by long experience among them as a fur trader."---Thomas W. Field. This work also contains rudimentary vocabularies of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Chipewyan, Nagailer, and Atnah Indian languages. "Mackenzie's narrative is of consummate importance in the literature of transcontinental travel. It is the first account of an ocean to ocean crossing of the North American continent. Mackenzie's account of the fur trade is of almost equal interest."---Everett Graff & Colton Storm. This copy is in exceptional condition. Offsetting of frontispiece to title page, else text block is clean with very light foxing on title-page and only a few pages. The 3 important, large folding maps are in Fine condition. This volume has been rebacked in leather in late 19th century to match early 19th century leather boards. Boards show aging to leather with cracking and scuffing. Gilt stamping around inner and outer perimeter of boards, as well as on spine, including title in gilt on morocco label. Early previous owners bookplate on inside of rear board. An important landmark work protected in clamshell case with title in gilt on morocco label on spine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Large quarto (8-1/4" x 11") bound in attractive modern full tan calf in antique style, with heavily gilt-decorated spine with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + errata leaf. FIELD 967: "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and peculiarities has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation"; GRAFF 2630; HILL, pp. 187-88: "This is the first and finest edition of one of the most important of Canadian books"; HOWES M-133; LANDE 1317; NEW HOWES M-133 "dd": "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man. The account of the fur trade--first ever published--is attributed to Roderick Mackenzie"; SABIN 43414; WAGNER-CAMP 1; WHEAT 251: "Mackenzie was the first white man to cross the continent, and his journal of this expedition is of surpassing interest." One of the greatest books in the field of Travel and Exploration and a classic of Canadiana and Western Americana. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved portrait of Mackenzie by P. Condé after Thomas Lawrence and three large folding engraved maps, the largest measuring 31" x 19". The "Map of Mackenzie's track from Ft. Chippewa to the Pacific Ocean in 1793" was a milestone and, as Wheat says, "At once questions began to be raised about the now patent inadequacies of all prior maps of the American Far West." This book had an enormous impact on the future of the United States. Thomas Jefferson and his secretary, Meriwether Lewis, read it, and Mackenzie's recommendation that the British fur trade set up shop at the mouth of the Columbia River spurred Jefferson to reaffirm U.S. territorial rights to the Pacific Northwest and led to the most important expedition in the history of North American exploration, the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-06. Lacking the half title, as usual. Minor occasional foxing; some offsetting from portrait to title page and on maps which, except for one neat repair and two minor marginal closed tears are fine; slight bowing of boards. A very attractive, Near Fine example of this important text.

Leather bound. Condition: Very good. First American edition. 296pp. Octavo [22 cm] In a later 3/4 leather binding, with brown cloth over boards. New endsheets and flyleaves. The boards are a bit warped. Repair to title and dedication pages. With map present at the front. Wright-Howes M 133. "First crossing of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man. The narrative portion was prepared for publication by William Combe from Makenzie's notes." - Wright-Howes, p. 362.

4to. pp. 1 p.l., viii, cxxxii, 412, [2]errata. without the half-title. 3 large folding engraved maps (1 with outline colour). engraved frontis. portrait. later half calf, top edge gilt (text lightly embrowned, some offsetting, short tears in upper blank margin of 1 map, short split in upper rear joint). First Edition of "the earliest expedition made by a white man in this direction. His investigations, although pursued at so early a period of Arctic exploration, were remarkable for their accuracy; Sir John Franklin more than once expressed his surprise at being able to corroborate their correctness in his own explorations. Some Indian vocabularies are included.". (Sabin) Mackenzie's journals recount his two expeditions undertaken on behalf of the North West Company in its attempt to break the Hudson's Bay Company monopoly of the fur trade. The first expedition, in 1789, from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabaska down Slave River to Great Slave Lake and then down what is now known as the Mackenzie River to the Arctic constitutes the first recorded trip to the Arctic from the Canadian prairies; the second, in 1792-93, from Fort Chipewyan along the Peace River, over the Rocky Mountains, and down the Bella Coola River to the Pacific, is distinguished as the first recorded crossing of the continent, north of Mexico. The maps are the earliest done of certain parts of Canada. Also included is a lengthy account of the development of the fur trade in the North West, generally attributed to the author's cousin, Roderick Mackenzie. Bell M20. Hill pp. 187-88. Howes M-133. Lande 1317. Morgan p. 240. Peel 25. Sabin 43714. Smith 6382. Strathern 343. Streeter VI 3653. TPL 658. Vlach 511. Wagner-Camp 1. Winsor VIII p. 34.