[Rarebooks] For Sale: Samuel Hearne's epic accout of a Journey to the Northern Sea.

[Norman Kane]

HEARNE, SAMUEL.   A JOURNEY FROM PRINCE OF WALES'S FORT, IN HUDSON'S 
BAY, TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN. UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF THE HUDSON'S BAY 
COMPANY, FOR THE DISCOVERY OF COPPER MINES, A NORTH WEST PASSAGE, 
&c., IN THE YEARS 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772.
Dublin: P. Byrne & J. Rice, 1796.  First Dublin edition.  Old 
(original ?) full calf, rubbed, hinges a little worn.  Signatures 
of  John Bartram Wright, who acquired the book in Lancaster, Pa., in 
1805.  He was the grandson of John Bartram.
7 folding plates & maps (of 8), lacking a plate of Indian implements. 
The 7 plates are in excellent condition.  (Hearne and an Indian 
companion crossed the Barren Lands on foot to the Arctic Sea; he was 
the first white man to do so. He discovered the Great Slave Lake and 
disproved the possibility of a Northwest Passage.  His Journal 
records a truly epic feat of early Arctic exploration, and is a rare 
and important work.  $1,000.00    (Trade Discount Available.)


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