Author: Dobbs, Arthur
Title: An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America
Description: New York City, Johnson Reprint Corp, 1967. Hardcover. pp. 211. 4to. Bound in blue cloth. Folding map. Bookplate, a few pencil marks, faint smoky odor; very good. A facsimile reprint of the 1744 first edition, which is Peel 18. Dobbs (1689-1765) never visited Hudson's Bay 'but derived considerable information from French publications and Canadian sources, especially from Joseph La France, a half-breed fur trader, in London in 1742. Dobbs opposed the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly.' (-A Bibliography of Canadiana) Scarce item, even in this form. Ill.: large folding map.

Keywords: Arctic;Polar;Fur trade;Canada;;;;; large folding map


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