[Rarebooks] FS: A. W. Greely's copy of a high spot in Canadiana and Exploration

[Charles Agvent]

MACKENZIE, Alexander [GREELY, A. W.]. VOYAGES FROM MONTREAL ... TO THE 
FROZEN AND PACIFIC OCEANS... London: Cadell & Davies, 1801. First 
Edition. Quarto, bound in modern buckram; [4] viii, cxxxii, 412 pages + 
errata leaf. Field 967: "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 
books in the field of Travel and Exploration and a classic of Canadiana 
and Western Americana, this copy lacks the half title, as usual, and 
also the three 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 the front pastedown. Greely has also made brief notes or marks on 
four pages. A lackluster copy, certainly, but with a distinguished 
provenance linking one of the greatest explorers of the 18th century to 
one of the greatest of the 19th century. Paper evenly browned. Good copy 
with a wonderful association. 		$1,500.00

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