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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.…

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8vo. pp. xv, 122. frontis., facsimile & 2 folding tables. index. cloth. dw. (some staining to dw.). Peel 50n.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo, 20.3cm, First British Edition, in 2 volumes, 568 & 416p., Wanting the title page & folding map in volume 1, Vol. 2. title present but chipped on the fore-edge, spines wanting, 3 boards heavily worn, one wanting, armorial engraved bookplate, as is (gar). Would be good to make up missing pages. The text page are square and clean, they are 20x 12.5cm (8" x 5"), but not trimmed exactly square, as usual. ~ First British Edition of the First History of America Written as a Whole, by a Resident of American.…

First edition. Plate & two folding tables. Lacks half title. 8vo. Later half-calf and contemporary marbled boards, gilt leather label. Corners worn, boards lightly worn. Some minor foxing, but very good. [2], vii, 128, 133-230pp. London, Printed for Charles Stalker, One of the earliest works dealing with the fur trade in western Canada and the Great Lakes region. Umfreville's work appeared at a difficult time for the Hudson's Bay Company, and added to the criticism that it was "concealing the existence of a Northwest Passage and . reports that its chief Canadian rival, the North West Company, was hoping to convince the government that its own explorations entitled it to an exclusive trade in the north-west" (Williams). Umfreville himself was upset at not obtaining a command at the Company.   Umfreville Hudson's Bay Company, for whom Umfreville worked from 1771 to 1782 when he was captured by La Pérouse at Fort York. After his release through an exchange of prisoners, he explored and traded in the region west of Lake Superior in the employ of the North West Company until 1788, when he went to New York. The text includes a printing of his journal, written during a trip from Montreal to New York, containing many references to Native languages, as well as the climate, soil, and natural history of the area.   Pilling notes that the Native languages references include: "Names of the months in the language of the Hudson?s Bay Indians, with signification, pp. 54--55.---Nehethawa names of the moons, pp. 191--192.---?A Specimen of sundry Indian Languages spoken in the Inland Parts of Hudson?s Bay, between that Coast and the Coast of California,? being a vocabulary of 44 words (on folding sheet facing p. 202) of the following languages: Nehethawa, or Ka-lis-te-no; As-sin-e-po-e-tuc, or Stone Indians; Fall Indians; Blackfoot Indians; Snake Indians [column blank]; Sussee Indians." Arctic Bibliography, 18187; Howes, U10 "b"; Lande, 1493; Pilling, 3951; Sabin, 97702; Williams, G., "The Hudson's Bay Company and Its Critics in the Eighteenth Century" in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 20 (1970), p.170.…