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Meany's Vancouver's discovery of Puget Sound no. Appleton and Company; Boston, Frederick Parker, Presents a step-by-step account of the development of the Oregon question and its solution, as part of the political history of the United States. Also published with imprint: V 37 [Beresford, William] fl. Dedicated, by permission, to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. London, Published by Geo. Some copies issued on large, heavy paper, with the eight natural history plates in colour.

Plate 10 is the score of a Nootka Indian song. Forty-nine letters by Beresford, the supercargo on the Queen Charlotte, edited, with an introduction and two appendices, by Dixon, ref. The Queen Charlotte and the King George under the command of Nathaniel Portlock who also wrote an account of the voyage no. Dixon 18 established the insularity of the Queen Charlottes of which Beresford gives a good description. The two works have been confused, especially in translation, in several bibliographies.

Archives ordinary and heavy paper editions. A reprint of the first edition with the same pagination. Howes D; Sabin , ; Smith ; T. French ii — Voyage autour du monde. Paris, Chez Maradan, Archives both I vol. Berlin, Christian Friedrich Voss und Sohn, Perevedeno s anglinskago na ostrovie Kad'iakie.

V Sanktpeterburgie, v Tipografii V. Howes B; Wagner P. From the March number of the Washington Investigator. Washington, Printed by James N. History of the northwest coast, no. Besant, Sir Walter, Captain Cook, by Walter Besant. London and New York, Maaxiillan and Co. English men of action. Reprinted , , , , , twice , With illustrations by J. London and New York, Macmillan and Co. On verso of t. Reprinted , , A well-documented, fictionalized biography for the general reader. A sketch of Jesuit activities in the Pacific Northwest.

Includes brief mention of British Columbia and the missionaries who worked there, especially Father John Nobili. There is also a section entitled: Missionary stations along the Upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers, pp. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2d. Mackenzie's rock, with a map showing the course followed by the explorer from Bella Coola, B. Introduction and notes by His Honour Judge Howay Sir Alexander Mackenzie's rock. End of the first journey across America.

Publication date from the Canadian Catalogue. Bishop, a trained surveyor, who was then in the service of the Land Department of the Government of British Columbia Illustrations by John Flynn. A- popular biography for children, grades 6 to 8. Johnson, archivist, Hudson's Bay Company, with an introduction by R. Black's Rocky Mountain journal, Limited edition available only to subscribers. Echelle chronologique et historique de la religion. Published by the Association de la Propagation de la Foi pour le diocese de Quehec. Also published in their Rapport, no. First printed version of the Catholic ladder invented by Bishop Blanchet to instruct the Indians of the Oregon Country, ref.

The Catholic ladder and missionary activity in the Pacific Northwest. All the versions listed here are described in detail by Hanley. A second edition was printed of which Father Hanley found a fragmentary copy on the Somenos Reserve, near Duncan, in A third edition, lithographed at Namur in , was withdrawn as it conflicted with Blanchet's views and was replaced by the Paris edition.

Blanchet, Arche- veque d'Oregon-City. Paris, Typographic de Feimin Didot freres [ or 7 ] Broadside. Varies in presentation from Quebec version. Valparaiso, Libas [] 23 Broadside. A — The key to the Catholic ladder, containing a sketch of the christian religion and universal history, useful to all, with the authorization of the Archbishop of Oregon City. Issued to accompany no. Historical notes and reminiscences of early times in Oregon, in a series of articles. The first civilized man, etc.

A summary of Pacific Coast discovery and exploration. The first civilized men who saw the Columbia River. Discoveries of Spanish navigators, of Capt. Appendix; or Summary of the first forty years of missionary life in Oregon, from to Historical sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon during the past forty years. Portland, Oregon [Catholic Sentinel Press] Early Catholic missions no. Cowan; Howes B; Smith Howes B; Smith ; Soliday note. Library Association of Portland. Historical sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon during the past forty years, This edition first published in Glad tidings by Fr.

Francis Norbert Blanchet, D. Howes B; Smith Memoire sur l'importance et la necessite de l'etab- lissement d'une province ecclesiastique dans l'Oregon. Caption title on p. Memoire sur I'etablissement d'un siege mitropolitain avec plusieurs suffragants dans la vaste etendue de l'Oregon. Original in the Acta of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, vol. Oregon Historical Society imperfect.

Entry completed from information supplied from perfect copy in l'Archidiocese de Quebec. Traducidas del frances por el R. Valparaiso, Imprenta del comercio, A [ — ] [Supplement. Rome, 16 avril, ] 3 p. Notice sur le territoire et la mission, de l'Oregon. Narnur, Typographic de F. Notice sur le territoire et sur la mission de I'OrSgon.

Published under the auspices of the Association de la Propagation de la Foi. Liste des objets dont la mission de l'Oregon a un grand besoin: PP[3I] Includes "une imprimerie complete, encre, etc. Bruxelles, Bureau de Publication de la Bibliotheque d'Education, The Notice has been revised and brought up to date and the "Liste des objets" omitted. Cowan; Graff ; Howes O; L. Johansen, with comments on the art of navigation, by Dana Small. A blending of John Boit's account with that of John Hoskins designed for classroom use and independent reading.

Based on Howay's edition of Hoskin's journal no. Includes a biography of John Boit of the Columbia, with passages from his diary kept on the northwest coast including incidents at Houston Stewart Channel, which the Boston men called Barrell Sound, in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Boston, Sold, wholesale and retail by L. Bold northwestman is a ballad of fourteen stanzas of double quatrains recounting an Indian attack on the Lady Washington in the Queen Charlottes on June 16, Only two copies are known to be extant but the entire text has been republished in F.

Yale University photocopy of original in the Widener Library. Single column with a cut at the head of the text and an ornamental border. A variant form with some slight changes in the wording. A considerably altered version in eleven stanzas omitting verses ten, twelve and thirteen and substituting a new final verse.

The date of the massacre is given as May Extraits de deux lettres des PP. Bolduc et de Smet, missionaries dans l'Oregon, Mission de la Colombie; lettre et journal de Mr. Bolduc, missionnaire de la Colombie. Quebec, De lTmprimerie de J. Frechette, pere, Imprimeur- Libraire [] 95 P- Account of his voyage from Boston via Cape Horn to the Columbia district in The journal ends with his proposed visit to Vancouver Island with James Douglas.

Bibliography of the Salishan languages, p. Deuxieme lettre et journal de M. Bolduc, missionaire a la Colombie. Quebec, De l'lmprirnerie de J. Frechette, pere, Imprimeur-Libraire, Four letters concern Tahiti; one dated 15 fevrier, , reports the voyage to Vancouver Island on the Beaver with Douglas, the establishment of Fort Victoria and the return to Cowlitz. California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. Fray Juan Crespi ; Smith Roma, Istituto Grafico Tiberino, Accounts of Malaspina's voyages compiled and edited by Emma Bona, together with her two articles, pp.

Narrative of the sufferings and adventures of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound: Auburn and Buffalo, John E. A well-documented study of Vancouver's contribution to the exploration and hydrographic survey of the coastline in relation to the work of Cook, the Spanish and the Russian explorers, based on the author's Ph. Summarized in Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol.

IS, 3 61 Bowes, Gordon Emerson, , ed. Eye-witness accounts from the first exploration in down to of the Peace River district of British Columbia, including the Finlay and Parsnip river basins, compiled by G. Bowes, together with several historical and descriptive narratives, maps, a bibliography and an index.

Selected and edited by Gordon E. A novel of the life of Rodrigo Alvarez de Palma y Ferragut, carpenter's apprentice on the Nootka, with his subsequent adventures on the Pacific Coast and at the signing of the Nootka convention. The author is best known for his monumental six-volume biography of James Madison. Victoria, British Columbia Historical Association, v. Superseded the Association's Annual report and proceedings.

Table of contents and index in each volume. Also indexed in the Canadian Index. Publication suspended with vol. Toronto, The Ryerson Press [] 32 p. The Ryerson Canadian history readers. An elementary school reader.

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A fairy tale for politicians who are too young to have learned anything, or who are so old that they have forgotten everything. New York, William H. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: Performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence and her tender in the years , , , , by William Robert Broughton. London, Printed for T.

Returning to the northwest coast in command of the Providence, he found Vancouver gone, whereupon he commenced a four-year survey of the coast of Asia. Great Britain's claim to the Oregon Country was based largely on Broughton's exploration of the mouth of the Columbia River.

A facsimile reprint of the first edition. French —Voyage de decouvertes dans la partie septentrionale de l'ocean Pacifique Traduit par ordre de S. Translated by Jean Baptiste Benott Eyries. This edition contains an added appendix "Voyage de Laxmann a Matmai Insu ", vol. Archives lacks some plates. Broughton's Befehlshabers der Kon. Weimar, Verlag des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Also issued by the same publishers in in their series Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen zur Erweiterung der Erdkunde, vol. Howes B; Sabin Publication date from Canadiana. Popular, undocumented sketches of incidents and personalities concerned with various place names compiled by a radio broadcaster and writer.

Canadiana '54; Lowther ; N. Brown's political history of Oregon. Provisional government treaties, conventions and diplomatic correspondence on the boundary question, historical introduction of the exploration on the Pacific Coast, history of the provisional government from year to year, with election returns and official reports, history of the Cayuse war, with original documents, by J.

Portland, Oregon, Wiley B. Only volume one published. The author is sometimes called James Henry. Eberstadt postulated in his Catalogue , no. A history of Oregon to Cowan; Howes B; L. A lecture on the Oregon Territory. The title of the United States to its sovereignty. Its capabilities and value to our country. And the necessity of an immediate settlement of it from the States, by Peter A. One of the first pamphlets printed during the boundary controversy and aimed at inducing emigration from the United States.

Includes a history of discovery and early exploration and an account of the British claims but devotes most space to discussing the accessibility of the capital territory by the overland route. Mackenzie, Selkirk, Simpson, by Rev. Limited, I 2 1. Series republished in five later editions no.

Notes and comments on Harmon's journal, WSu v. A paper read before the Society on the evening of 13th December, Winnipeg, Manitoba Daily Free Press, Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society. The reminiscences of a fur trader. Harmon's experience in the Northwest. Largely superseded by W. Kaye Lamb's edition of Harmon's journal, entitled Sixteen years in the Indian country no.

A reprint of the first edition, with the same pagination. National Library, Ottawa London ; U. Preface dated August 19, Baltimore, Printed at the Constitution Office, Archives and the Yale University copies are all without maps. Memorial of Charles Bulfinch and others praying the confirmation of their claims to certain tracts of land on the Columbia River, April 9, Referred to the Select Committee on the occupation of the Columbia River and ordered to be printed. Asking confirmation of Columbia River lands only.

January 13, , referred to the Committee on foreign affairs. Charles Bulfinch et al. Includes historical remarks on the discovery of the Oregon River and purchases of land on the northwest coast with affidavits and deeds of purchases by Kendrick of virtually the whole of 38 76 77 Vancouver Island from Maquinna and Wickaninnish; also, extract from George Mortimer's Observations and remarks, London, , on medals struck by Kendrick in Hawaii in Bulfinch, John Trecothic Apthorp, b.

A simple account of early exploration of the northwest coast written for children, with a poem The discovery of the river "Roc" The Columbia. Letters lately published in the Diary on the subject of the present dispute with Spain, under the signature of Verus. London, Printed for G. Authorship attributed to Burges by S. Initials and pseudonyms, but it is not among Webb's works listed in the D. Howes W; Sabin title. A narrative of the negotiations occasioned by the dispute between England and Spain in the year It was prepared in the foreign office while the negotiations were in progress The Ryerson Canadian History Readers.

Explorers and colonists, no. Burney, son of the musician Charles Burney and brother of Fanny, Madame D'Arblay, sailed with Cook on his second and third voyages and rose to the rank. After his retirement, he wrote a five-volume history of discoveries in the Pacific Ocean to , a number of pamphlets, and this work. Although primarily concerned with the Russian voyages on the northwest coast, it includes his account of Cook's third voyage. Influence of the war of upon the settlement of the Canadian west, by Lawrence J.

A very broad, undocumented essay of which the author observed "this paper On the old Athabasca trail, by Lawrence J. Toronto, The Ryerson Press [] p. Printed in Great Britain by the Camelot Press. Extracts from the adventures of early travellers on the Athabasca Trail from David Thompson to Sandford Fleming retold by the author while on the same trail. Archives Toronto ; U. For the general reader. Henry Hudson and the great bay. OQ Hearne] The quest of the Coppermine. Simon Fraser of New Caledonia. Burpee, Lawrence Johnston, The search for the western sea: London, Alston Rivers, Ltd.

Part 3 includes early exploration of British Columbia. Changing trends in research have led to a revaluation of its merit. Critically reviewed by AS. Morton in the Canadian Historical Review, vol. Also published in New York by Macmillan in from the Canadian printing. The published writings, no. Calhoun and the 42 87 Hon. Pakenham, Her Britannic Majesty's plenipotentiary, with an appendix, containing the counter statement of Mr. Pakenham to the American Secretaries of State, and a map showing the boundary line proposed by each party. London, Wiley and Putnam, Apparently published under the auspices of the British government for limited circulation.

Howes C31; Sabin ; Smith Callahan, James Morton, American foreign policy in Canadian relations, by James Morton Callahan. New York, The Macmillan Company, Lowther, has made extensive use of publications and archives of the U. Coleccion completa de los tratados, convenciones, capitulaciones, armisticios y otros actos diplomaticos de todos los estados de la America Latina comprendidos entre el golfo de Mejico y el cabo de Hornos, desde el afio de hasta nuestros dias, precedidos de una memoria sobre el estado actual de la America, de cuadros estadisticos, de un diccionario diplomatico, y de una noticia historica sobre cada uno de los tratados mas X 43 importantes, por Carlos Calvo Durand, Gamier Her- manos [et] Mms.

At head of title of these volumes: This edition gives texts in Spanish and editorial matter in French. Journal kept on board the Santiago on Hezeta's expedition "translation. The illustrations were made by Choris while on Kotzebue's voyage of Captain James Cook, R. A straightforward account of Cook's career by a naval officer, author of a number of books on sailors and the sea, ref. Who was who, C, and his contribution to the fur trade in Canada, including the far west. Although the work is obviously based on solid research, the lack of documentation makes it impossible to determine which conversations, letters and diary entries are factual and which imaginary.

It was sternly reviewed by Dr. Grace Nute in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. Issued simultaneously in New York by the St. Martin's Press from the Canadian printing. Great stories of Canada: The book won the Governor General's Award, Campbell, Marjorie Elliott Wilkins , The savage river: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada [] [6] p. Great stories of Canada [no. A history written for children.

Early journal — to , later journal—Sept. Seattle, Washington [Shorey's Book Store] Preface signed by John W. Early journal copied from typescript transcript in the Soliday Collection. Later journal then owned by a grand-daughter, Mrs. After a period spent farming at the Red River settlement, Campbell joined the H. He discovered the Upper Stikine in and the Pelly River in The Scotsman in Canada, by Wilfred Campbell Cat; Lowther vol. Report of the Public Archives. Ottawa, Queen's Printer, v. No reports issued for , , , Also found in Canada. Reports for were not issued separately but included in the Reports of the Minister of Agriculture.

Some reports reprint the text of newly acquired documents. A — Index to reports of Canadian Archives from to Published by authority of the Minister of Agriculture under the direction of the Archivist. Ottawa, Printed by C. Publications of the Canadian Archives, no. A general history of Oregon prior to , by Charles H.

Carey, President of the Oregon Historical Society. Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Press, i[i] 2 v. These are especially useful for the detailed documentation of official publications, particularly those of the U. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company [] vi, p. A novel of the northwest coast for grades 6 to 8.

The author has been an associate editor of the Catholic Sentinel and written a number of books with an Oregon background for children. Reprinted 10 times, ref. Who's who among Pacific northwest authors. Personnel of the Endeavour. Hawai'ian opinion of Cook. Cook's logs and journals. New York, Franklin Watts, Inc.

A biography written for children. Published simultaneously in Toronto by George J. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, Includes references to the northwest trade. Milano, Edizioni "Alpes", Includes eleven letters of Malaspina published from the original mss. Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. Ristretto con Nota d'Archivio sulle prowidenze d'adottarsi per il prospero reggimento degli affari Ecclesiastici nell' Oregon. Issued to accompany F. Blanchet's Memoire sur I'importance et la necessiti de I'itablissement d'une province ecclesiastique dans I'OrSgon no. The Catholic University of America.

Studies in American church history.. United States , by Donald Shearer Contents identical with Washington edition. Los Angeles, Privately published by the author, xiii, p. Broad history of the coast from Mexico to Alaska from pre- European times to the twentieth century, with emphasis on California. Reprinted by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Archives ; U. The table on pp[] shows the apportionment of authorship credits for Bancroft's Works no.

Los tres siglos de Mexico durante el gobierno espanol hasta la entrada del ejercito trigarante. Obra escrita en Roma por el Padre D. Andres Cavo de la Compania de Jesus. Mexico, Luis Abadiano y Valdes, Suplemento a la historia de los tres siglos de Mixico durante el gobierno espanol. Escrita por el Padre Andres Cavo. Carlos Maria de Bustamente, como con- tinuador de aquella obra. Historia civil y politica de Mexico. Biblioteca nacional y extraniera. Reprint of edition. Jalapa, Tipografia Veracruzana de A. Paris, Societe de Geographie, Extrait du Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie, 2e trimestre, Includes the speeches made on the centenary, copies of some correspondence of Laperouse, a life and a catalogue of exhibits.

A biography which synthesises material from published sources. Euryalus; tales of the sea. A few leaves from the diary of a midshipman. Sometimes attributed to Admiral B. Pim, who was also a midshipman on the Herald. A lively account of service on H. Herald which took part in the search for Franklin's expedition and visited Vancouver Island in Reprint of the first edition, with a new t.

The American fur trade of the far west. A history of the pioneer trading posts and early fur companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the overland commerce with Sante Fe. Maps and illustrations by Hiram Martin Chittenden New York, Francis P. Ghent in the D. The Press of the Pioneers Inc. American culture and economics series, no. Figures of the commonwealth. A popular biography written for young readers. Lights and shadows of sailor life, as exemplified in fifteen years' experience, including the more thrilling events of the U.

Exploring Expedition and reminiscences of an eventful life on the "Mountain wave", by Joseph G. Boston, John Putnam, Eberstadt Catalogue , no. Although the greater part of the work concerns experiences in the South Pacific, chapter 14 describes the visit to Vancouver Island and Columbia River area with the U.

Reprinted in with 6 plates by Benjamin B. A narrative of voyages and commercial enterprises, by Richard J. Chapters record a fur-trading voyage in the ship Caroline to Alaska and the Queen Charlotte Islands in Contains an additional introduction relating further experiences; also, a letter from William Shaler relating particulars of a voyage to the northwest coast.

A re-issue of the edition in new covers. Boston, Published by Charles H. New York, Burt Franklin [ ] p. New York [! A reprint of the reprinting of the edition. Includes some additional material and an obituary. New York, Manhattan Publishing Co. London, Edward Moxon, Howes C; Sabin The makers of Canada. Edition limited to four hundred signed and numbered sets. Series title also at head of t. Later editions listed under series no. David Thompson, the explorer, by Charles Norris Cochrane. Canadian men of action; series edited by W. Toronto, The Champlain Society, The publications of the Champlain Society, Limited edition for members and subscribing libraries only.

Journal of Golnett's second trading voyage to the northwest coast, edited from the original in the Public Record Office. The appendices contain the terms of the licence and other records relating to the Prince of Wales, Princess Royal and Argonaut and a translation of Martinez's diary from July 2 to 14, 58 , presenting a parallel version of Colnett's account of the Nootka Incident. Originally published as Champlain Society Publication A voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, for the purpose of extending the spermaceti whale fisheries and other objects of commerce by ascertaining the ports, bays, harbours and anchoring births in certain islands and coasts in these seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted, undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett of the Royal Navy in the ship Rattler.

London, Printed for the author by W. Bennett; sold by A. Ar- rowsmith, Stockdale, Edgerton, Elmsly and White, Compiled by William Combe from Captain Colnett's journal, ref. A lengthy footnote, pp.

Howes's note that "it was preceded by a 16 p. Philadelphia, " appears to be an error. London, Printed for the author Comments on the Convention with Spain. Argues that the terms of the Nootka Sound Convention are too restricting. Appears to be written by one with interests in the northwest trade.

Howes C; Smith Comparative chronological statement of the events connected with the rights of Great Britain and the claims of the United States to the Oregon Territory. Smith and Graff date provisionally ; Streeter dates ? Two parallel columns setting out the claims, left, of England and, right, of America. Last date mentioned is Summary, pp[i4]-i5, denies the claim of the United States. Compendio hist6rico de las navegaciones practi- cadas por oficiales y pilotos en buques de la Real Armada, sobre las costas septetrionales de California, con el objeto de descubrir y deter- minar la extension y position de sus distritos, e islas adyacentes.

Mexico, Editor Vargas Rea, Biblioteca Aportaci6n His- t6rica, 2. Attributed to Casasola by H. Wagner, who says it formed 60 the basis for Navarrete's introduction to Jose Espinosa y Tello's Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana no. Cartography of the northwest coast of America no. A novel of the fur trade on the northwest coast at the time of the North West Company, written for Grades 7 to 9 by an Oregon author of fiction for children, ref.

The journals of Captain James Cook on his voyages of discovery; edited by J. Edited from the original mss. Beaglehole with the assistance of J. His monumental work is the standard modern authority and is unlikely to be superseded. For each voyage, Cook's own journal is published from the originals together with all other ms.

The voyage of the Endeavour, The voyage of the Resolution and Adventure, The voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, Charts and views drawn by Cook and his officers and reproduced from the original manuscripts, edited by R. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, to deteimine the position and extent of the west side of North America; its distance from Asia; and the practicability of a northern passage to Europe. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the years , , , and Illustrated with maps and charts, from the original drawings made by Lieut.

Henry Roberts, under the direction of Captain Cook; and with a great variety of portraits of persons, views of places, and historical representations of remarkable incidents, drawn by Mr. Webber during the voyage and engraved by the most eminent artists. Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London, Printed by W. Nicol, Bookseller to His Majesty, and T. Plates found bound variously. Lada-Mocarski gives a lengthy note on the subject.

He considers that the 62d. The long delayed official account of the voyage "edited, emended, added to and drastically tidied up by Canon Douglas": Parry in the Canadian Historical Review, vol. The first edition sold out in three days, ref. Beaglehole gives a detailed history of the publication and its sources in his edition of the Journals no. Here are fisted only editions and translations of the official account. There were in addition numerous abridgements, collected voyages, and popularizations.

Henry Roberts, under the direction of Captain Cook. Dublin, Printed for H. London, Printed by H. Mus Sabin ; Wickersham Contains a memorandum by William Wales, entitled A defence of the arguments advanced in the introduction to Captain Cook's last voyage against the existence of Cape Circumcision, vol. The introduction has been rewritten and the account transposed into the third person. French — Troisieme voyage de Cook Traduit de l'anglois, par M. Demeunier with additions from the journal of William Anderson, ref. German — Capitain Cooks dritte und letzteReise EineUeber- setzung nach des zwoten grossen Englischen Ausgabe Du Rietz lists five German translations, including this, and observes "It is earnestly to be hoped that the complex bibliographical field formed by the contemporary German texts relating to Cook and his voyages shall soon be surveyed in its entirety by a trained bibliographer well versed in the German language and with free access to the holdings in German and Austrian libraries".

BK ; Kayser ; Smith Tableau topographique et politique de la Siberie, de la Chine, de la zone moyenne d'Asie et du nord de l'Amerique. Berlin [Imprime Chez Louis Quien aux frais de l'auteur] The author was "un homme d'esprit et de savoir, mais d'un savoir indigeste et d'une imagination bizarre": Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siecle.

Concludes that conditions on the northwest coast are producing a race of "Jasons modernes" such as terminated in France only with "une monstrueuse dissolution vomitoire de brigands, de sacrileges, de regicides, de charlatans Voyages in the Northern Pacific. Narrative of several trading voyages from to , between the northwest coast of America, the Hawaiian Islands and China, with a description of the Russian establishments on the northwest coast.

Interesting early account of Kameha- meha's realm; manners and customs of the people, etc. With preface and appendix of valuable confirmatory letters prepared by Prof. First published serially in the London Literary Gazette, Corney did not make landfall on the B. He describes shipping activities in the area. Cowan; Graff ; Howes C; Wickersham A limited facsimile edition of numbered copies, preceded by 75 pages of biographical and bibliographical notes. Adventures on the Columbia River, including the narrative of a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, He gives an account of the rivalry between the Nor'westers and the Hudson's Bay Company, along with a sketch of Wilson Price Hunt's journey to Astoria and his own activities, ref.

Some copies bound 2 vols, in 1. Howes C; Sabin ; Smith ; T. New-York, Printed and published by J. Harper, and sold by the principal booksellers throughout the United States, Prepared by the personnel of the Work Prosy jects Administration, Project no. This publication 66 is sponsored by the California State Library. San Francisco, June, Sutro Branch, California State Library. A transcript without additional material.

Edited and with an introduction by Edgar I. Stewart and Jane R. The American exploration and travel series [no. Illustrated by Cleveland Rockwell and others. Far western classics, no. Date from National Union Catalog. One of a " Series edited by Alfred Powers: Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America, to which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China, by William Coxe Coxe visited Russia in and collected oral and manuscript accounts of discoveries.

His work consists of an almost complete translation of Neu Nachrichten von den neuentdekten Insuln by J. Schultz; abstracts of the journals of Krenitsin and Levashev not previously known even to Russian readers ; and a number of other documents with useful introductory and editorial matter, ref. Bering's successors, ; contributions by Peter Simon Pallas [edited] by J. March of America facsimile series, no.

A facsimile reprint with added title: The Russian discoveries between Asia and America. Includes supplement with separate t. A comparative view of the Russian discoveries First published to accompany the third edition no. Contains a supplement, pp[] with separate tp.: A comparative view of the Russian discoveries with those made by Captains Cook and Clerke and a sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future navigators. A facsimile reprint with added t. London, Printed for Messrs.

Cadell and Davies, French — Nouvelles decouvertes des Russes Translated by Jean Nicolas Demeunier, ref. Paris, Charles Joseph Panckoucke, Landau ; "About the routes of the Korsakov district" by N. Kirilov ; "Food of the Sakhalin Gilyaks from the local museum "; "Analysis of the weather of the Alexandrovsky post on Sakhalin for from the report of Alexandrovsky meteorological station.

A vivid and interesting image showing native buildings, each with totem poles and three native men and a European man, possibly Collison. Marion Collison became the first white woman resident in that community and their first child was the first white child born there. But Collison came into fierce conflict with Duncan over Duncan's moves to establish his mission there as an independent church out of the control of the CMS. In he became the first missionary to work among the Haida people on the nearby Queen Charlotte Islands. He was ordained at Metlakatla in In he began work among the Gitxsan, up the Skeena River from the Tsimshian.

He founded the first mission at Hazelton, B. In he became Archdeacon of Metlakatla, from which Duncan had departed to found his new community of "New" Metlakatla, Alaska, taking most of the inhabitants of the village with him. In the early s he and his family moved to Kincolith, a Nisga'a village on the Nass River in northern B.

Collison remained there until his death on January 23, Collison is best remembered for his vivid memoir In the Wake of the War Canoe, which contains numerous ethnological insights, including information on the nearly extinct Tsetsaut people, remnants of whom lived at Kincolith.. It is located on the southeast coast of Graham Island, the largest island in the archipelago, and is approximately 50 kilometres 31 mi west of mainland British Columbia across Hecate Strait.

Skidegate was so named in the early 19th century, after its chief, according to tradition. The community was a hub for the trade of otter furs" Wikipedia. Two albums, both ca. Albums and photographs with three photographs in duplicate , each ca. Hugo Pallin was a part of the Swedish rescue team and arrived in Svalbard on the seal fishery vessel Quest which we can see on several photographs.

Most pictures are dated with July and show numerous views of rescue planes and vessels from different countries, a part of them identified as: Portraits of the members of the rescue teams include several pictures of a famous pilot Einar Lundborg who rescued Nobile from the ice saluting and posing ; Lieut. Rosensvaerd; members of the Italian dog sledge team captain Sora and Dutchman van Dongen; captain of Krasin Carl Eggi and many others overall over 30 close-up portraits.

Quite a few pictures show Pallin himself and his team member, devoted Swedish mountaineer and photographer Borg Mesch with his son Halvard. An excellent collection with numerous images from the Golden Age of Aviation. Interesting shots include portraits of Saami people and local peasants with scenes of everyday life logging, skiing; portrait of groups of children , a view of a "Lapland" school with a teacher, interior of a Swedish peasant house, several pictures of a military regiment on skis et al.

Especially interesting is a series of ca. Despatches [A letter dated 12 December from Governor Kennedy to the Legislative Assembly enclosing despatches concerning crown lands]. On a folded folio leaf ca. Pemberton brown ink, in the right upper corner. Near fine, clean copy. A very rare leaflet as no copies located in Worldcat. Compliments Vancouver Real Estate Board. Supplement to the Morning Oregonian. Wood engravings on a large double-sided sheet ca. With 16 engraved views, including three panoramas. Most views after engravings made by Moss Eng. Pickett , several views of buildings - after photographs by Mr.

Weak on folds, some splits along folds neatly repaired, overall in very good condition. Early views of Vancouver produced just after the city began to rebuild after the great fire of It is charmingly noted that: The Great Vancouver Fire on June 13, , razed the entire city. The Vancouver Fire Department was established that year and the city quickly rebuilt.

Vancouver's population grew from a settlement of 1, people in to over 20, by the turn of the century" Wikipedia. Not in Vancouver Centennial Bibliography Vancouver, , 4 vols. No copies in Worldcat. Images mildly faded but otherwise in a very good condition. Two early interesting images of Vancouver in the early to mid 's. Vancouver "was incorporated on April 6, Three months later, on June 13, a spectacular blaze destroyed most of the city along the swampy shores of Burrard Inlet in twenty-five minutes. The Great Vancouver Fire, which destroyed the city, was eventually considered to be beneficial, as the city was rebuilt with modern water, electricity and streetcar systems.

Things recovered quickly after the fire, although celebratory Dominion Day festivities to launch the opening of the CPR were postponed a year as a result. The first regular transcontinental train from Montreal arrived at a temporary terminus at Port Moody, in July , and service to Vancouver itself began in May That year Vancouver's population was 5,, by it reached 15, and by it was ," Wikipedia. An Act for Establishing a Registry of Deeds. A couple of very small tears on the edges, otherwise a very good copy.

Incunabula with no copy located in Worldcat. This broadside establishes the "Registry of Deeds and other instruments affecting Real Property"; which purpose was "to simplify the conveyance of Land and other Real Property," to provide "the valid execution of Deeds, Acts of Instruments"; "and for the due recording of all Wills or Testaments" regarding "any Estate in Land or other Real Property.

Most likely a preliminary version of the Council Bill which finally established the Registry in Clearly a draft, since the printing is rather poor and a blank space has been left at one place, and no royal seal is printed at the top of the text. The Minutes of the Council note the introduction by Douglas of this item for consideration at its meeting on Dec. The importance of this legislation relegated it to discussion at council meetings for several months while various opinions as to its legality, etc. One page on a folded double folio leaf ca.

Very rare broadside with Worldcat only locating a copy at UBC. According to the document, "the Victoria and Esquimalt Railway Company Limited was duly registered on the 21st day of November, " with the goal of "making of a Line of Railway between Victoria and Esquimalt, and the conveyance of passengers and goods between Esquimalt and Victoria. Two lithographs matted in one, both lithographs in fine condition.

Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, Victoria was incorporated as a city in Publishers' original green blind stamped and gilt titled on front cover cloth portfolio with silk ties. With a paper label on front cover, gilt mildly faded, covers slightly dusty, one silk tie missing, otherwise a very good copy. The survey was conducted by Archibald Campbell, Commissioner, and W. Cameron, Commissioner, and Captain S. Inventory X , the City of Vancouver Archives hold a copy of exactly the same image. She made remote parts of the west coast of Canada accessible for maritime fur trading and was chartered by the Royal Navy for surveying the coastline of British Columbia.

Beaver was built in London of British oak, elm, greenheart and teak, and was copper fastened and sheathed. Her length was feet 31 m , and the beam over her paddle boxes was 33 feet 10 m. She was launched at Blackwall Yard on 9 May and left London on 29 August under the command of Captain David Home, and with the company's barque, Columbia, built at the same time and commanded by Captain Darby. Beaver was outfitted as a brig for the passage out, paddles unshipped, and came out via Cape Horn under sail alone. Here the paddles were shipped and boilers and engines connected.

In she was chartered by the Royal Navy to survey and chart the coast of the Colony of British Columbia. Initially she had a rectangular boiler, generating steam pressure at under 3 psi, and was fed by seawater. Boulton and Watt engines are not pressure engines, rather they are vacuum engines. The salt water played havoc with the boilers as the salinity rusted the wall thickness of the boiler which would rot out.

The Beaver had to have a new boiler every seven years or so and went through multiple installations over her career. Over time the boiler pressure was upped, and the large 42 inch cylinders were replaced with 36 inch diameter ones. The Beaver played roles in the establishment of coal mines at Fort Rupert, and later in , Nanaimo. It would also ferry dignitaries like the Governor back and forth between the two colonies of New Caledonia. In her later life the Beaver burned coal and would hire young Natives of the Squamish nation to work the holds as coal passers.

She was finally sold by the Hudson's Bay Company in She was purchased by a consortium that became the British Columbia Towing and Transportation Company in and was used as a towboat until 25 July when, due to an inebriated crew, she went aground on rocks at Prospect Point in Vancouver's Stanley Park. The wreck finally sank in July from the wake of the passing steamer Yosemite, and only after enterprising locals had stripped much of the wreck for souvenirs. The Vancouver Maritime Museum houses a collection of Beaver remnants.

The site of the sinking has been commemorated with a plaque" Wikipedia ; Mautz p. Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. With nineteen engraved plates, three folding maps, and numerous engraved vignettes. Original publisher's blue blind stamped gilt cloth. Two additional gilt lines added to spines, plates mildly foxed, otherwise a very good set. The various harbors along the coast of California and northwest to Alaska were surveyed, and a month's journey in open boats was made up the Sacramento River from San Francisco Bay.

At Montague Island they were visited by the Russians, who had a settlement there; during Captain's Belcher's two visits to Sitka he met the Russian Governor, Captain Koupreanoff, and his wife, who received him most courteously" Lada-Mocarski During the next three years the Sulphur was employed on the west coast of both North and South America, and at the end of received orders to return to England by the western route.

After visiting several of the island groups in the south Pacific and making such observations as time permitted, Belcher arrived at Singapore in October , where he was ordered back to China, because of the war there; during the following year he was actively engaged, especially in operations in the Canton River. The Sulphur finally arrived in England in July , after a commission of nearly seven years.

Belcher had already been advanced to post rank 6 May and was made a CB 14 October ; in January he was made a knight, and that year published his Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Performed in H. Sulphur during the Years 2 vols. With 36 plates twelve color lithographed plates and four maps and charts three folding. Original publisher's navy patterned blind stamped gilt cloth and housed in a custom made matching navy cloth slip case. Recased and with Historical Society blind stamps on titles, plates and maps, otherwise a very good copy.

No claim is made by Captain Belcher in his narrative to a solution of the fate of Sir John Franklin or of the Northwest Passage to the Pacific, but regarding the latter he says: He became Admiral in " Hill The appointment was unfortunate; for Belcher, though an able and experienced surveyor, had already demonstrated that he had neither the temper nor the tact necessary for a commanding officer under circumstances of peculiar difficulty. Despite his abilities, Belcher evidently inspired strong personal dislike among his superiors and his subordinates, and the customary exercise of his authority did not make Arctic service less trying.

His expedition is distinguished from all other Arctic expeditions as the one in which the commanding officer showed an undue haste to abandon his ships when in difficulties, and in which one of the ships so abandoned rescued herself from the ice, and was picked up floating freely in the open Atlantic.

Belcher's account, published in under the extravagant title of The Last of the Arctic Voyages 2 vols. On a folded octavo leaf 19x24 cm. Brown ink on blue paper. Mild fold marks, traces of paper on the fourth page as the letter had been attached to a book or a sheet of paper, otherwise a very good letter. A wrathful letter by Edward Belcher which was obviously a reaction to a recently published book by Francis Samuel Marryat "Borneo and the Indian Archipelago" London, Samarang" London, 2 vols.

Heard, "our late first lieutenant, who had left our ship, in consequence of the treatment he received from the captain"; Mr. Marryat recounted the court-martial which was assembled to inquire into the conduct of Lieutenant Heard, but was subsequently "dissolved. Belcher was obviously very irritated with these statements, especially considering the young age of Marryat who was just when his book was published. In the letter Belcher talks about "Mr. If any of the acts which he attributed to his superiors has a shadow of foundation why is he supported by the present high-minded Board of Admty?

Heard was as spotless as described why has he not been supported - promoted? A Naval Biographical Dictionary. He also says that he has "a document to prove the falsehood of every assertion that touches my character. As an officer he had many desirable attributes: However, he suffered from an irritable, quarrelsome, and hypercritical nature which made relations with superiors and subordinates alike extremely difficult.

Nouvelle Edition, illustre par M. Paul Boiteau, Ilustrated by Mr. Limited New Edition 19 of 25 on Chinese paper. With a wood engraved frontispiece and wood engraved title vignette and many other wood engravings on plates and in text and a folding map. Publishers' original beige pictorial printed wrappers. Covers with some small marginal tears and spine with some chipping of head and foot, otherwise a very good copy "Account of the second voyage of the Prince Albert, outfitted and dispatched by Lady Franklin under command of Capt.

Includes throughout, observations on the ice, animals, and birds seen at sea, the physical features of the country and the climate, with notes on the Eskimos of West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic Islands" Arctic Bibliography First Edition. Ships "Erebus" and "Terror"]. Two tinted lithographs ca. Matted near fine tinted lithographs. Two tinted lithographs from the account of one of the first Franklin search expeditions.

It consisted of H. Browne served on board the Enterprise and, in addition to producing these views, led one of the four search parties during the spring of Beset by ice off Somerset Island, Browne made an eight day sledge journey in search of clues to Franklin's disappearance. Engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved maps, 53 engraved plates, some folding, 1 engraved table, and engraved title vignettes, after Moreau le Jeune and Le Prince; atlas volume with engraved frontispiece index and 30 engraved maps, many folding, some hand-coloured in outline.

The text volume in period brown elaborately gilt tooled mottled full calf with maroon gilt morocco labels and atlas in period green gilt titled full vellum. Atlas with some mild foxing, otherwise a very good set in very original condition. This work has "splendid and accurate engravings and.. Certain of these descriptions inspired the publication of an indignant rebuttal, sometimes attributed to Catherine the Great.

Chappe d'Auteroche was a French priest and astronomer, who travelled to Siberia to observe the transit of Venus in The present work includes meteorological observations, descriptions of the climate, animals, birds, and insects, notes on the iron ore, copper, and gold mines, etc. Chappe d'Auteroche's translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's description of Kamchatka from the first Russian edition of From Paris he reached St.

Petersburg, then sledged to Tobolsk, where in June the transit was duly observed. The expedition carried out a large number of scientific measurements en route, and reported on the geography of the region and the customs of its inhabitants" Howgego C Neuilly-s-Seine, 5 May Laid paper, folded twice, the text is written in ink in a legible hand, with the address printed on top. Very minor tear on fold, otherwise in very good condition.

A Commemorative Silver Medal, by P. Original felt-lined crimson leather case with clasp; A very good set. Charcot, the famous French polar explorer, receiving a medal from Marshal Franchet d'Esperey at the Geographical Society today. A very good photograph. This is a group of memorabilia related to the last expedition of the famous French Antarctic Explorer Jean-Baptist Charcot.

The expedition ended with tragedy, when on 16 September the ship was caught in a violent cyclonic storm and lost on the reefs off the coast of Iceland. Jean-Baptiste Charcot was one of the dead, aged 69 Wikipedia. If your son was doing his national service at the time the crew was chosen, I could have tried and queried the Ministry.

Charcot also mentioned Doctor Louis Gain , the naturalist of the French Antarctic Expedition , who directed the request to him. Finally, the press photograph was taken shortly before Charcot left on his last expedition. The Oceans, Islands and Polar regions, C9. Chart Received from the Russians. Copper engraved double-page map by T. Harmar on laid paper with original centrefold.

A fine wide-margined map. For the Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere in , 77, 78, 79 and " London, ; 3 vols. And atlas shows Cook's discoveries in the North Pacific. A search for a route back to Europe north of Siberia also proved fruitless. During this cruise Cook became the first European to enter Nootka Sound on the north-west coast of Vancouver Island, where he remained for a month taking astronomical observations and cutting spars for use as spare masts and yardarms.

Trade was carried out with the native Mowachaht for furs, mostly of the sea otter, which when sold later in China drew attention to the commercial potential of this trade" Oxford DNB ; Wagner ; Lada-Mocarski 37; Sabin Nichols for T, Cadell, Folding map frontispiece, with 3 other folding maps and charts, and one folding wood engraved panorama. Handsome period brown elaborately gilt tooled treed full calf, rebacked in style. A very good copy. Petersburg, Coxe researched recent Russian discoveries between Asia and America, which resulted in the present work, he endeavored to collect the journals of the several voyages subsequent Bering's expedition in , with which Gerhard Mueller concluded his account of the first Russian navigations.

Coxe recounts the principal Russian discoveries and explorations made in Northwestern America in their attempts to open communications with Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Accounts of some of these journeys had already been published, mostly in German, but Coxe took the trouble to verify the correctness with such eminent authorities as Gerhard Friedrich Mueller and Peter Simon Pallas.

Coxe made suggestions which led the Russians to promote expeditions of discovery to the northern parts of Siberia. Notable in the present work are a useful bibliography and pertinent observations on the fur trade between Russians and the Chinese" Hill ; Howes C; Cordier Sinica ; Sabin However, Coxe took advantage of a sojourn in Russia to verify these accounts with Gerhard Friedrich Muller and Peter Simon Pallas and other eminent Russian experts on the subject.

He was able to secure this particular information, not widely known at the time even in Russia, from Dr. William Robertson, who in turn obtained it through his friend Dr. Simpson, mounted on old cardboard and matted, cut close to the image, but with no loss. McClure "was given command of the Investigator as part of the second Franklin search expedition. Cresswell was a second Lieutenant on the Investigator and led several sledge investigating and rescue parties across Banks and Dealy Islands after the ship had been stuck in the ice.

With four folding maps and twelve double-page plates. Black ink signature on the front free flyleaf "Basil T. Scarce early Hakluyt Society publication of de Veer's account describing Barentsz's three voyages to find the Northeast Passage made during the years From the library of Basil T.

Woodd, one of the members of the Hakluyt Society included in the List of Members, p. The publication "is most appropriate at this particular juncture, when public attention is so painfully absorbed by apprehensions as to the fate of Franklin and his companions" Preface. The extensive preface gives an overview of early English and Dutch travels to the Russian Arctic.

Reid, 24 December Copper engraved chart on laid paper with original centrefold. Backed, with a few tears and chips repaired and backing extending the lower margin, otherwise in very good condition. After wintering in the Sandwich Islands winter , the two captains returned to northern waters, visiting the Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, the Alaskan mainland and the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Dixon disposed of his cargo and returned to England in , the following year publishing his popular Voyage Round the World. The bulk of the book consists of descriptive letters by William Beresford, his supercargo, but it contains valuable charts and appendices by Dixon himself. One page on a double quarto leaf 23x18,5 cm , addressed and sealed on the 4th page. Brown ink on watermarked Whatman laid paper.

Round stamps "C de V" on the lower margins of the 2nd and 3rd pages. Loss of the upper blank corner of the 4th page with some text of the address possibly, a docket , otherwise a very good letter. Early important primary account of the operations of Montreal fur traders, the letter recounts translated: If you can find a good deal and we can get as reasonable a price as possible in this business, you may purchase them for our joint account and draw on me for the sum, provided the packets accompany the drafts and that they do not exceed Halifax Louis.

Much of their trade was to the south of these lakes which was a well established trade zone. In Dobie went into partnership with Benjamin Frobisher, who travelled to the trading posts and wintered there, while Dobie remained in Montreal. They mounted at least one attempt at the northwest fur trade in partnership but most of Dobie's trade efforts continued with various partners, one of whom was Francis Badgley, in the Great Lakes area. Although heavily involved in the fur trade, Dobie was also active in any number of non fur trade enterprises.

He accumulated a large fortune in these endeavors and was an important member of the Montreal community Wikipedia. Jean-Louis Besnard dit Carignant was a merchant trader based out of Montreal and engaged in the fur trade by He was outfitting voyageurs and, in turn, relying on suppliers like Pierre Foretier. He was also in the milling business with a flour mill at Lachine, Quebec.

Through a series of events he was forced to declare bankruptcy in September His dealings with the Montreal merchant Richard Dobie were called into question at that time. Creditors of Besnard sued Dobie because of these transactions. Besnard ended up turning over all his assets to his creditors. Although officially considered dishonest, he was allowed to continue in the fur trade and pursue other occupations. He ended up in important positions at Fort Michilimackinac and died of drowning in Lake Michigan.

His failures in business were probably the result of the nature of the fur trade at that time. Control of the trade was increasingly held by few powerful merchants. They, in turn, created the North West Company in Wikipedia. Built around , and abandoned in , it was located along the southern shore of the strategic Straits of Mackinac connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, at the northern tip of the lower peninsula of the present-day state of Michigan in the United States.

Leaflet with minor foxing, corners creased where once turned down, otherwise a very good copy. Rare leaflet with only thirteen copies found in Worldcat. It implemented the appointment of two gold commissioners who registered claims, issued licenses and adjudicated disputes with the advice and aid of elected district mining boards. This was a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton. The rush overtook the region around the discovery, and was centered on the Fraser Canyon from around Hope and Yale to Pavilion and Fountain, just north of Lillooet.

Though the rush was largely over by , miners from the rush spread out and found a sequence of other gold rushes throughout the British Columbia Interior and North, most famously that in the Cariboo. The rush is credited with instigating European-Canadian settlement on the mainland of British Columbia. It was the catalyst for the founding of the Colony of British Columbia, the building of early road infrastructure, and the founding of many towns" Wikipedia. Copper engraved map ca.

Middle of right margin with a small chip, not affecting the printed area, otherwise a very good map. This is the second state of this map, which "is the first printed sea chart to depict the waters between Greenland, labelled Europa on the map, and Labrador. Using Mercator's projection for the first time, it is also the earliest to indicate the prevailing winds and ocean currents" Burden The first of its six books dealt with methods of calculating longitude, including those of his own invention; the second contained charts and sailing directions.

Book five built on the work of the Portuguese navigator Pedro Nunez. Small Quarto, 2 vols in one. With two folding wood cut maps. Period dark brown elaborately gilt tooled full sheep with a light brown gilt label. Label faded, text mildly browned and with some very mild staining of a few leaves, maps with minor repairs and with a small library marking on the title page, otherwise a very good copy.

After much hardship Hans Poulsen Egede landed on the west coast of Greenland with three ships and 40 people including family on 3 July Egede was the first missionary to the Inuit of Greenland, where he served for 15 years and founded the colony of Godthaab. His work was of fundamental importance for the colonization of Greenland.

As a missionary he was groundbreaking and was nicknamed the Apostle of Greenland. He also gave an important contribution to the understanding of Greenland's geography and Inuit culture and language Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo. Hans Poulsen Egede "established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact had been broken for hundreds of years.

He found Nuk a fine site with a good harbour. He saw the site again several times in ensuing years, but it was not until that he again took up the plan to move there" Holland p95 ; "Egede converted many of the Inuit to Christianity and eventually established a considerable commerce with Denmark" Howgego E17 ; First Part: Tinted lithograph, printed image ca.

With a couple of very minor repaired marginal tears, not affecting printed image. A near fine lithograph. Rare as Worldcat only locates nine copies. This large lithographic panoramic view shows Victoria B. As viewed from a bird's eye from the Strait of San Juan Fuca looking north. This view includes a key which identifies 63 places of interest. The Songhees established a village across the harbour from the fort.

The Songhees' village was later moved north of Esquimalt. When the crown colony was established in , a town was laid out on the site and made the capital of the colony. The Chief Factor of the fort, James Douglas was made the second governor of the Vancouver Island Colony Richard Blanshard was first governor, Arthur Edward Kennedy was third and last governor , and would be the leading figure in the early development of the city until his retirement in In when the island was politically united with the mainland, Victoria was designated the capital of the new united colony instead of New Westminster - an unpopular move on the Mainland - and became the provincial capital when British Columbia joined the Canadian Confederation in " Wikipedia ; Reps Librairie de Amyot, With a large folding outline handcoloured map.

Period style brown gilt tooled quarter calf with marbled boards, with original printed paper wrappers bound in. Monsieur Fedix, after an exhaustive and extensive research, concludes that the country belongs to neither the United States nor Great Britain, but to Oregon and the Oregonians, and urges the settlers to kick out the whole caboodle and establish an independent Republic of their own" Eberstadt With a copper engraved plate and fifteen folding maps and eleven folding tables.

Handsome 19th-century maroon elaborately gilt tooled quarter morocco with marbled boards. A near fine set. This matted map is in fine condition. This is a very rare "chart of the western portion of the entrance to Nootka Sound, showing the islands and protected bay, with its small settlement. The nine maps in the atlas, however, are perhaps even more significant, presenting a rare record of Spanish cartography in the New World.

De America por los Buques de S. Bottom half of left margin trimmed to neat line, evidently as issued, old folds, otherwise the map is in very good condition. This is a very rare "coastal chart from the top of Vancouver Island to the Alaska peninsula and Unalaska, made from actual observations, showing the routes of the expeditions from to This is map no.

Period style brown gilt tooled half calf with marbled boards and black gilt label. Some scattered very mild foxing, otherwise a very good copy. In the Russian sloop "Diana" under the command of Vasily Golovnin and Peter Rikord, as the second-in-command, was sent as a second official Russian circumnavigation with the purpose of exploration and surveying of the Russian Far East, Kamchatka and Alaska. During his short stop at the island of Kunashir, Golovnin, his two officers and four sailors were taken prisoners, transported to the island of Hokkaido and there were kept in prison near the town of Matsumae for over two years.

The peaceful solution of the conflict became possible only as a result of the friendly relationship between Peter Rikord, who organized and led three expeditions to rescue his commander Golovnin, and the prominent Japanese businessman and public figure Takadaya Kahei , who was captured by Rikord with his ship Kanze-maru, and stayed in Russia for several months. Takadaya Kahei learned Russian, and upon returning home he convinced the Japanese government that the Russians could be trusted.

The Russian sailors were then released from Japanese captivity no one in history has ever returned from the Japanese captivity before. After Golovnin's release in , his account of his captivity was published in English with the title" "Narrative of my Captivity in Japan During the Years , , " and this work was later augmented with the current volume which gives a more detailed description of Japan and the Japanese people.

Cordier Japonica ; Howgego , G A total of more than 80 pages of manuscript material, mostly on quarto sized sheets. Plus an additional thirty-six printed and manuscript items relating to the later military career of Second Lieutenant Duane M. Most documents with old folds; a few with edge wear and tears, occasionally affecting some text. Overall the collection is in very good condition. A very important and interesting manuscript archive, giving an account of actions against Indians in northern California during the Civil War.

This archive contains the military papers of Captain Duane M. During the period covered by this archive, Fort Gaston was headquarters of the California Volunteers, whose main mission was battling hostile Indian tribes, including what is referred to in these papers as the "Weitchpec" tribe.

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Greene volunteered for service at San Francisco in February and served for two years. The present archive, however, goes far beyond the printed record of Greene's experiences and gives a full view of the eight months he spent engaging Indians in northern California. The archive contains several of Greene's manuscript drafts and notes used to produce his formal reports, and a few of the reports are present also in final manuscript versions, in a secretarial hand.

It also contains several manuscript copies of orders sent to Greene regarding his mission, the conduct of his company, records of promotions and discharges, notes regarding the discipline of disobedient or deserting soldiers, orders regarding requisitions, and much more. A part of this archive that has certainly not been printed, for example, is a fourteen-page series of notes, in Greene's hand, beginning February 17, , describing the movement of his company from Benicia to northern California — first to Arcata and then to Fort Gaston.

This manuscript appears to have some gaps, but it gives interesting insight into Greene's early attitudes toward his service, and the challenges faced by his company as they travelled to the Humboldt region. Taylor rations for 10 days. You will remain until further orders near the junction of the Trinity and Klamath [rivers]. You will select such a position as you may deem best - with an eye to defense and comfort, putting your men in huts as soon as possible.

You will send out one detachment at a time of 15 men in such directions as you may think best. I hardly think one Indian is worth going for to the mouth of the Klamath. Believe little that you hear from the Indians but do not let them discover your unbelief. Find out all you can, give as little information in return as possible and never trust one of them when out of sight. The women and children will always be spared and sent as prisoners of war to the cmdg. Officer of Fort Humboldt. They are not final, polished, reports, but rather his original notes giving details of missions, from which his longer reports were written.

They therefore constitute the "first draft" reports of his troops' activities and encounters with Indians. For example, there are four pages containing notes on missions sent out by Captain Greene in March , one of which resulted in the capture of two Indians: With 20 men started on an expedition down the river taking 4 days rations leaving 20 men in camp. Monday 14 - at 7: Greene notes that the next day the Indians were transported to Fort Gaston, where they were hung on Thursday the 17th. Reports for later in the month describe the search for two missing privates: Taylor with 28 men and 10 days rations for the command arrived from Fort Gaston - reported 2 men A scouting party of ten men out from 9am until 5pm marched n.

Easterly making a sweep of about 5 miles inclining towards the river which they touched at about 3 miles below the ferry. Seen nothing of any Indians. Taylor with an escort of 10 men started for Fort Gaston having the pack mules in charge. Hines and 15 men across the river on a scout towards 'French Camp' to examine the trails and more particularly search for the two men who was missing from Lieut.

Taylor's command on the previous day. These are expanded and more polished versions of the reports noted above, and contain detailed information on "scouts and movements made from the 8th to the 15 day of March, inclusive by a detachment of Company 'E' 6th Infantry. For example, part of the report for March 8 reads: I asked him how he got hurt, and he said it was by the accidental discharge of his piece. He said he belonged to Lieut. Middleton's party which he said was within half a mile of me, returning to Fort Gaston. Suspecting that he belonged to the band reported opposing Middleton, and endeavoring to escape, I made prisoner of him and proceeded about half a mile and met Middleton who said the Indian's story was correct, whereupon I released him.

Middleton told me the rumor of his being attacked, or that the Indians were collecting for that purpose was not correct. He saw some Indians, but they scattered and fled to the mountains. Another pair of manuscript reports one of them seven pages in a secretarial hand and the other four pages in Greene's hand provide reports from the month of April, that also give details of scouts in search of any actions against unfriendly Indians. The report is datelined at Camp Iaqua and describes in great detail an action of April 8, in which Greene's troops, in conjunction with friendly Indians, attacked a tribe led by "Ceonalton John," which led to a meeting between Greene and "John" to discuss terms of the Indians' surrender.

Another original manuscript report in Greene's hand written in pencil is dated May 2nd and gives details of a successful attack on an Indian camp: Taylor occupying the south and a part of the east and west side, while I occupied the north and part of the east and west sides, I having a part of Lieut. Taylor opened fire on the Indians when they run towards me I then fired on them and the fire became general from all sides.

After the fight was over we found that we had killed three bucks and three squaws and broke one bucks arm, took two squaws and two children prisoner. The attack took the Indians so much by surprise that they had not time to carry off any of their property or plunder. Taylor, gives a detailed reconnaissance of the area around the Klamath River, the quality of trails, good places to cross, etc. An order, dated April 23, at Benicia Barracks, orders that "no more 'small boys' of the same age or height as Patrick Ford are to be enlisted.

Bugles and not drums will be the field music of the Regiment. Also included are other documents relating to Greene's later life, including his career as a grocer in Pasadena. It was located in what is now the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Fort Gaston as part of the Humboldt Military District was intended to control the Hupa Indians and to protect them from hostile white settlers. The Indians holed up in several log buildings, firing at Companies B and C of the Mountaineers from rifle ports.

Attempting to drive them out the Army attacked them with howitzers. At nightfall, with the buildings in ruins, the Indians were able to escape in the darkness. The Mountaineer companies held the fort until June " Wikipedia. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Period dark brown gilt tooled half morocco with green pebbled cloth boards. A very good set. It seems that after Kamchatka Hill travelled to Hawaii and these travels are recorded in his "Travels in the Sandwich and Society Islands.

Travels in the Sandwich and Society Islands. Chapman and Hall, With a folding frontispiece map of the Sandwich Islands. Original publishers brown blind stamped gilt cloth. His travels around the island of Hawaii, however, are the most interesting portions of the text.. En route he watched surfers.. Original outline handcoloured copper engraved map ca. A good impression, the map is in very good condition. This map incorporates the discoveries made by Captain Thomas James along the southern and western shores of Hudson Bay in The delineation on Russia's Arctic coast is derived from the information from Willem Barents' exploration of Rhumb lines radiate from the North Pole and several compass roses embellish the chart.

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A large title cartouche, with two figures and numerous wind heads, conveniently hide the northwest coast of America. The map is further decorated with ships and a cartouche with Jansson's imprint, which depicts men in parkas, a polar bear and foxes. This is the fourth state of the plate with a legend beneath the cartouche and a completed coastline of Spitzbergen" Old World Auctions ; Burden ; Tooley E-J, p.

With three lithographed maps two folding and twelve wood engraved plates and numerous wood engravings in text Original publisher's red gilt patterned blind stamped cloth. Spine very mildly faded, otherwise a very good copy. An account of the Schwatka Franklin search expedition in by the artist and surveyor on the expedition. The sledge journey to King William Island, covering 5, KM in 50 weeks, was a record distance for any sledging expedition by whites at that time and has rarely been surpassed" Holland p.

With an expertly removed library marking on title page, otherwise a near fine copy. It proved to be one of the most important and fruitful of all Russian circumnavigations, contributing greatly to knowledge of the South Seas, Pacific Northwest and Alaska, although without finding the North-West Passage here termed the North-East by Kotzebue.

With him were Louis Choris, expedition artist, and Adelbert von Chamisso, naturalist. Their valuable study of Pacific islands included Easter Island, the Tuamotus, Marshalls and the newly-discovered Romanzoff Islands, and Kotzebue's reports on coral atolls were later used by Charles Darwin.

Reaching Kamchatka they passed through Bering Strait, explored Kotzebue Sound, and investigated the Pribilof Islands and Aleutians, recording excellent descriptions of the Chukchis, Aleuts and Eskimos. Before crossing the Pacific they made stops on the California coast, at San Francisco, followed by a long stay in Hawaii at the court of King Kamehameha I, handsomely portrayed by Choris. Choris' own illustrated account of the voyage was published in " Christies. Kotzebue had also sailed with Captain Kruzenshtern in Kotzebue explored the North American coast and Hawaii and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean.

The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution" Hill ; Arctic Bibliography ; "A Celebrated narrative important for its descriptions of Alaska, California, Hawaii and Micronesia" Forbes ; Howgego , K20; "The three volumes are rich in early original source material on Alaska" Lada-Mocarski 80 ; Sabin Chez Benoit Duplain, With two large copper engraved folding maps. Handsome period brown gilt tooled mottled full calf with red and black gilt labels.

When Georg Wilhelm Steller arrived in Kamchatka to supervise his work, Krasheninnikov left in order to avoid becoming Steller's assistant, and returned to St. Krasheninnikov nonetheless was able to make use of Steller's notes in the preparation of his own narrative, and the inclusion of Steller's observations on America, made during his travels with Bering's second voyage, are an important part of this work, and constitute one of the earliest accounts of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.

Steller's account was not published until This work details the customs, morals, and religion of the Kamchatka peninsula, and discusses the power exercised by the magicians. Also described are the differences between the dialects of the Kamchatkans and those of the Korsairs and of the Kurile islanders.

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This is the first scientific account of those regions" Hill Krasheninnikov volcano feet is named after him" Sothebys ; Cox I, p. Performed in the Years , , , ,abridged from the Original French Journal Which was lately published by M. Period brown gilt tooled speckled full sheep with light brown gilt label. Some browning of text as is usual, mild waters stain on title and first few leaves, extremities mildly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy in very original condition.

He was to examine such parts of the region as had not been explored by Captain Cook: Articles taken along on the voyage to trade with the natives included 1,, assorted pins, four large German organs, and fifty-two plumed dragoon's helmets. The result was that Laperouse made valuable contributions to the history of geographical discovery, particularly with regard to the American coast and the natives of America.

His labours there furnished geographers with results whereby they could check the charts of Russian, English, and Spanish navigators. Laperouse sent his dispatches to France from Kamchatka and Botany Bay. After leaving Botany Bay, the expedition was never heard from again.

Thirty-nine years later the broken remnants of his two ships were found on the reef of Vanikoro, one of the Santa Cruz Islands, by Peter Dillon" Hill p. This voyage became one of the most important made in the interests of geographical knowledge" Hill p. Signed "Arthur Law" in the left lower corner.

Later matting with hand drawn borders and manuscript caption. The watercolor is in near fine condition. A very beautifully and skilfully executed watercolor Fraser Canyon near Yale during most likely an Indian summer evening in Immediately north of the village the Fraser Canyon begins, and the river is generally considered un-navigable past this point, although rough water is common on the Fraser anywhere upstream from Chilliwack, and even more so above Hope, about 20 miles south of Yale.

But steamers could make it to Yale, good pilots and water conditions permitting, and the town had a busy dockside life as well as a variety of bars, restaurants, hotels, saloons and various services.

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Its maximum population during the gold rush was in the 15, range, although typically it housed , The higher figure relates to the evacuation of the Canyon during the Fraser Canyon War of " Wikipedia. A hand coloured copper engraved map ca. Matted map with original folds but otherwise in very good condition. It is bordered by Baranof Island to the south and the northeast, by Kruzof Island to the northwest and by the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.

During the early 19th century it was a major locus of the Maritime Fur Trade" Wikipedia. This map is from a "most important work dealing with discoveries on the N. The author was a captain in the Russian navy and commander of the "Neva. The long chart shows the track of the voyage, and there are charts of the Washington Islands, Cadiack, and the Harbor of St.

There are also plates of Indian implements, etc. The work is important also as the principal source for the Sitka Massacre" Soliday Matted map in very good condition. The largest island in the Kodiak Archipelago, Kodiak Island is the second largest island in the United States and the 80th largest island in the world" Wikipedia.

Discovery Ships "Erebus" and "Terror," , , With 8 chromo-lithographs, 24 woodcuts, and a hand colored folding map. Original brown blind stamped patterned gilt cloth. Some moderate foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Leaving one ship, The North Star, at Beechey Island as a base, the other four ships made important explorations as they searched unsuccessfully for Franklin. In May of , convinced that the four ships could not be freed from the ice, Belcher ordered the squadron abandoned. Kellet objected strongly, believing the abandonment premature.

Later naval historians have tended to agree with Kellett. The crews traveled over the ice for two weeks, until they reached the North Star and returned in her to England. The Resolute freed herself from the ice and drifted unharmed for a thousand miles before being recovered and ultimately presented to Queen Victoria" Hill ; "Kellett and McClintock turned their attention to the search for Franklin's expedition and the exploration of new lands in the vicinity of Melville Island" Howgego Polar Regions, B15 ; Arctic Bibliography ; Sabin By Direction of the Honorable W. Smithe, Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.

Lands and Works, Map lithographed and printed in four colours ca. Map mounted on linen and housed in period dark green gilt tooled straight-grained full sheep covers. Covers mildly worn at extremities and spine chipped at head and foot and hinges cracked, otherwise a very good map in very original condition. Worldcat only locates eleven copies of this rare map which shows the soon to be completed Canadian Pacific Railway. The map was engraved and printed in Edinburgh by J. Bartholomew and was published by the Dawson Brothers in Montreal.

Edward Mohun "arrived in Victoria in June of He was married to Emmeline Jane Newton widow of W. Newton in New Westminster in Mohun was appointed as a surveyor to the Joint Indian Reserve Commission in He surveyed reserve allotments throughout Vancouver Island and the coastal areas. In , with the direction of the Honourable W. The covers were produced by M. Small Octavo, 2 vols. With a large folding engraved map.

Handsome period full polished mottled calf, spine gilt lettered with red morocco label, edges coloured. A near fine copy. III versions were issued the same year. His publications were the main source of original material for both European and Russian scientific communities. As Sabin notes, it is "indispensable for the history of discovery and exploration in the Northern Pacific.

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