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Author: Mackenzie, Sir Alexander
Title: Voyages from Montreal on the River St. Laurence through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of That Country
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:John Morgan
Date Published: 1802
Description:

2 volumes bound in 1. [6], viii, cxxvi, 113; [2], [115]-392 pp. With stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Mackenzie & folding engraved map of America with Mackenzie's track. (8vo) 21.5x12.5 cm (8½x5"), modern quarter calf with marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Second American Edition.

The one-volume issue of the Second American edition. Mackenzie was a Scottish fur trader and explorer who in 1789 followed the Mackenzie River from the Great Slave Lake for 1,100 miles to the river's delta on the Arctic Ocean and is covered in his first journal. The second journal covers his journey over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast of present-day British Columbia. These journeys constituted the first known transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico and took place twelve years before the more famous Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Faint age-toning to pages, map bears touches of creasing, small tear at fold, no loss, map otherwise intact; very good.