Lot 182: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21, & 22

xi, [1 blank], 482 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and folding map on tissue. 8 3/4 x5 1/4, half calf. First American Edition.

"The author traveled by Hudson Bay, Cumberland House to Fort Chipewyan... explored the upper Coppermine River, wintered at Fort Enterprise (between Great Slave and Great Bear Lakes) descended the Coppermine, and explored by canoe the coast of Coronation Gulf eastward over five hundred miles into Dease Strait to Cape Turnagain. The party returned over the Barren Grounds to Fort Enterprise," with detailed descriptions of travel conditions, the various tribes of Indians, the Copper Eskimos, etc. Bookplate of Morton Newhoff and early ownership signature on title. Arctic Bib. 5915; Sabin 25626; Wagner-Camp 23:6

1824

Front cover detached; frontispiece and title foxed, scattered few marginal brown spots; very good.

Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: Carey & Lea, Small, et al