Beaver herbert (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: VG+. Limited Edition. One of only 750 copies produced. Green cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Frontis illustration shows Fort Vancouver in 1833. No dust jacket. Attractive volume. 148 pages. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf-wear.

Zustand: very good. First Edition. Strathern 32. "Reports to the Governor and Committee and letters to the Deputy-Governor, with James Douglas' report on the Beaver affair, edited from the originals in the Company's Archives. ?Eager to send a chaplain to the Columbia Department to enforce Christian values upon Hudson?s Bay Company employees and Indigenous people, the London Governor and Committee and Hudson?s Bay Company Governor, George Simpson, appoint Herbert Beaver in 1835 to serve as a chaplain and missionary for Indigenous people at Fort Vancouver. Beaver denounces the company?s practices of marrying multiple Indigenous wives and enslaving Indigenous people, creating great tension with chief factor, Dr. John Mcloughlin. After only two years, Beaver returns to London after facing much difficulty in working with the Hudson?s Bay Company? Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, website. sm4to. 26.5cm, xxiv,148,[5]p., frontis view, limited to 750 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy, title page printed in red and black, on rag paper, green cloth, some slight wear on the spine else very good sound copy, internally fine.…