mcleans notes twenty five years von mclean john (3 Ergebnisse)

1932. (Cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 402pp. Folding map of Canada showing the positions of Forts and Trading Posts mentioned by McLean. Gilt top-edge. Ex-library with bookplates and stamps. Mild waviness to the top of the first 20 pages. Sounds much worse than it is. Very attractive copy despite everything. A reprint of the two volume 1849 London edition, with a preface and introduction by W.S. Wallace. Publication XIX of the Champlain Society. Un-numbered copy of 550 copies. Peel(3) 225.

1932. (Cloth) Very good plus. 402pp. Folding map of Canada showing the positions of Forts and Trading Posts mentioned by McLean. Spine sunned, else fine. A reprint of the two volume 1849 London edition, with a preface and introduction by W.S. Wallace. Publication XIX of the Champlain Society, numbered 46 of 550 copies. Peel(3) 225.

24cm, xxiii 402p. rear folding map, limited to 550 copies, this being #36, crested red cloth, t.e.g., spine slightly faded, a very good sound copy. (Ar). Charles W. Jefferys's copy with his signature on the free fly. - McLean served the Hudson's Bay Company in the Ottawa valley, the Northwest, on the Pacific coast, Hudson Bay and in the Labrador between 1821 and 1845. He was the first white man to traverse the entire Labrador Peninsula, and in so doing he discovered the Grand Falls of the Northwest River. His narrative "one of the classics of wilderness travel", is also an authentic record of the H.B.C. activities after its union with the Northwest Company.