Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver Island and British Columbia, showing What to Expect and How to Get There, with Illustrative Maps

Published by Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts

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B0037UBMIY First Edition, ix, 171 pp., plus 24 page publisher's catalogue; illustrated with 4 folding lithographed maps partially colored. Hardcover. Book: Acceptable; as is, every page from the half-title to p.15 has come loose, but otherwise firmly bound; rebound in the 20th century in marbled boards with leather spine which is sunned; unsure why first signature was not properly bound. Pages: Good; the paper is brittle with some margins chipped, library stamps of the Union Theological Seminary, NY, throughout. Pemberton, a colonial surveyor and engineer for the Hudson's Bay Company on Vancouver Island, became in 1860 the first surveyor-general of Vancouver Island and was a member of its first Legislative Assembly from 1856-59. This guide for the gold miners and settlers contains a history of Vancouver Island and British Columbia with discussion of the mode and terms of sale of lands, the gold regions, proposed British Emigrant and Postal Route to the Pacific, etc. 8vo, 2 lbs (with packaging), Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. Scarce. Gagnon I 2663. Lande 1388. Lowther 122. Sabin 59618. Smith 8035. Seller Inventory # SKU1001664

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Title: Facts and Figures Relating to Vancouver ...

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Edition: 1st Edition