richard glover introduction (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. No. 1766 of a Limited Edition. Original publisher's black cloth binding in original gray paper dust jacket. Gilt lettering on book spine. Gilt coat of arms decoration on front cover. Maroon lettering on front panel and dust jacket spine. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." lxviii, 1-455 pages, complete. Fifteen additional pages in back listing members and libraries who are subscribing to the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Front colophon: "This copy is No. 1766 of a limited Edition which is issued only to subscribers to The Hudson's Bay Record Society." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning throughout. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for minuscule wear to extremities. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is very clean and intact except for slight age toning throughout out, darkening along spine (slightly browned), and slight wear to extremities. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. Volume XXV in the Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society series. A collection of reprinted letters from the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) dated from 1703-1740. Contents are listed as follows: "Preface," "Introduction," "List of Letters," "Letters from Hudson Bay," "Appendix A: Governors and Chiefs of Bay Posts," "Appendix B: Ships Sailing Between England and Hudson Bay," "Appendix C: Cargoes Sent to Hudson Bay," "Appendix D: Trade of Hudson Bay," "Appendix E: Biographies," and "Index." The Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 as a fur trading company. HBC once controlled a commercial monopoly throughout the entirety of Rupert's Land, a territory expressly formed for HBC's monopoly. Rupert's Land also comprised the Hudson Bay drainage basin. The Canadian government gained control of Rupert's Land in 1870 following negotiations with HBC. HBC is still in business to this day as Canada's largest and oldest corporation. Today, HBC is commonly referred to as "The Bay" and has many brick-and-mortar retail stores as well as an online store. HBC has since changed its product line to reflect current interests, and as of 2023, no longer sells animal fur products.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Limited Edition. 423 pages, with list of subscribers and fold-out map at rear. Lightest wear only. Jacket now protected in mylar.

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, Toronto, ON, 1958. Lxxii, 301 pgs. Fold-out map present. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn with pieces missing from the edges of the DJ) . Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1769, Hearne was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to find a northwest passage via Hudson Bay and to explore the country for copper mines which had been reported by local indigenous people. After two initial failures, Hearne reached the Coppermine River in December 1770 and followed it to its mouth on the Arctic coast. On his return he discovered Great Slave Lake. As a result of Hearne's explorations, any theory of a western exit was disproved, and much was learned and reported about the natural history and indigenous tribes of the region. Curiously, it is to the great French explorer, La PÃ rouse, that we owe the publication of Hearne's narrative, for it was La PÃ rouse who discovered the manuscript when he captured Fort Albany on Hudson Bay. After the British recaptured the fort, La PÃ rouse insisted on the publication of the manuscript by the Hudson's Bay Company, which resulted in this work, with its marvelous maps and plates.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condizione: Very good. A new edition with added material. cii,(2)-410,xv Pp. Large folding map in back Red cloth with gilt tilte to spine.

4to [33 x 26 cm]; xliv, 458 pp, complete with 5 folding maps including large folding map frontis hand colored in outline, 4 folding engraved plates, errata page. original marbled boards with later leather spine, gilt spine title lettering and decorations in blind, a few margins with light foxing, a fine uncut copy with wide margins, copy of Simon McGillivary Junior with his signature dated 1822 on title page. The epic journey by Hearne, who was the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean, at the mouth of the Coppermine River, by land and discovered the Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River system. Hearne was employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada for twelve years. He recorded in detail the lives of the Indians and the natural history of the regions seen on his three trips. The book's publication, three years after Hearne's death, was due to the famous French explorer La Perouse, who found Hearne's manuscript when he captured Fort Albany, Hudson's Bay, and stipulated, as a condition of surrender, that the manuscript be published. Sabin 31181: 'The author will be remembered as the first white man that ever gazed on the dreary expanse of the Arctic of Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the Continent of America. . . a beautiful volume'. Streeter sale 3652: 'This day-to-day record of three trips northwest by land from Hudson Bay was printed from Hearne's manuscript three years after his death'. 'A painfully honest chronicle of his epic journey. . . a classic in the literature of northern discovery' [Newman, Empire of the North]. TPL 445. Cox II, p. 171. Hill 141. Lande 1220. Simon McGillivray (1783?-1840) entered the London firm of McGillivray, Fraser and Co. in 1805, and in 1813 became a partner in the Montreal-based McTavish, McGillivray and Co. He played a leading role in the merger of the Hudson's Bay and The North West companies in 1821 [McCord Museum]. A fine copy of a cornerstone of Arctic exploration with excellent provenance. A picture of this book is available on request.