mcleans notes twenty five years di mclean john (5 risultati)

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.

1968, reprint edition. (Hardcover) Fine, no dust jacket. 402pp. Vocabulary of the principal Indian dialects, index, folding map. Edited by W.S. Wallace. Publisher series: Champlain Society 19. Locale: Western Canada. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Indians of North America).

Condizione: very good. First edition Limited to 550 copies. xxxvi, 402, xii pp. Octavo in original red cloth with gilt lettered and crested spine. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Covers slightly soiled. With a folding map at the end. Numbered copy. Very good condition. Originally published in London, England, as two volumes, 1849. With a preface and introduction by W.S. Wallace.

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.

McLean, John. John McLean's Notes of a Twenty-five Year's Service in the Hudson Bay Territory. Edited by W.S. Wallace. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1932. 1st ed. thus. xxxvi,402pp. Large folding map. Orig. cloth, T.e.g. Spine sunned, else near fine. One of 550 numbered copies. McLean's narrative "is a fascinating story of travel; to add to its value it deals with the little-known area of Labrador"-Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature.