[Rarebooks] FS: A.W. Greely's copy of the account of the First Crossing of North America by a white man

[Charles Agvent]

MACKENZIE, Alexander [GREELY, A. W.] VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ... TO THE FROZEN AND 
PACIFIC OCEANS...
Cadell & Davies London 1801 First Edition Modern buckram. [4] viii, cxxxii, 412, 
errata leaf. Field967: "No writer upon the subject of Indian customs and 
peculiarities has given us a more minute, careful and interesting relation"; 
Hill, pp. 187-88: "This is the first and finest edition of one of the most 
important of Canadian books"; Howes M-133; New Howes M-133 "dd": "First crossing 
of the continent from ocean to ocean by a white man.... The account of the fur 
trade--first ever published--is attributed to Roderick Mackenzie"; Wagner-Camp 
1: "Mackenzie was the first white man to cross the continent, and his journal of 
this expedition is of surpassing interest"; Wheat 251. One of the greatest 
booksin the field of Travel & Exploration and a classic of Canadiana & Western 
Americana, this copy lacks the 1/2 title, as usual, and also the three important 
maps which are represented by reduced blueprint copies provided by a previous 
owner, the famous Polar explorer and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, 
Adolphus W. Greely whose bookplate graces thefront pastedown. Greely has also 
made brief notes or marks on four pages. Alackluster copy, certainly, but with a 
distinguished provenance linking oneof the greatest explorers of the 18th 
century to one of the greatest of the19th. Paper evenly browned. Good copy, 
wonderful association!   $1500.00
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