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ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER. Illustrated by Cleveland Rockwell and Others
Edition: First of this edition
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, no date (1957). Octavo, green cloth, endpapers illustrated in green. pp (vi), 105 + plates on text paper. Fine copy, no owner names. Pale green price-clipped dust jacket has some sunning, light soiling, light damp stains along spine; good. Extracts form the two volume, London, 1831, first edition. An important fur trade journal. Cox, a young Irishman, was up and down the Columbia River in 1812-17, working for Astor and then the North West Company.; Octavo
Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket
Book ID: 36193More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
BEYOND THE RIVER AND THE BAY: Some oberservations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a View to Providing the Intending Settler with an Intimate Knowledge of That Country
Edition: First Edition
University of Toronto Press, 1970. Yellow cloth. pp xiv, (192), [2] + 5 folding maps (4 are double-sided) in pouch at rear (complete)+ 5 plates (4 double-sided). Index. A very good clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy. A book about the fur trade in the Canadian Northwest in the early 19th century, based on an imaginary contemporary manuscript.; Octavo 0802052231
Book ID: 42299More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
Company of Adventurers. Volume 1
Edition: First Edition
Markham, Ontario: Viking, 1985. Blue boards, endpaper maps, illustrations, index. Owner blind stamp to half-title leaf, else fine. Jacket has moderate wear, VG otherwise. First volume of author's history of the Hudson's Bay Company. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0670803790
Book ID: 45755More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
Ethnohistoric Study of Eastern James Bay Cree Social Organiztion, 1700-1850
Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1983. National Museum of Man, Mercury Series: Canadian Ethnology Service Paper No. 88. Quarto, card covers. pp 199. Two sketch maps in text. VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. A study of the effects of the fur trade on the Cree people of this region.
Book ID: 42629More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
EXILE IN THE WILDERNESS. The Biography of Chief Factor Archibald McDonald 1790-1853.
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1979. Octavo. Brown boards, endpaper maps. pp (xx), 268 + four double-sided plates. Fine in very nearly fine jacket. A biography drawn heavily from McDonald's own reports, letters and diaries. He was responsible for the well-being of all 94 members of Selkirk's ill-fated Red River settlement in Manitoba. Much on the Hudson's Bay Company, the fur trade, long canoe voyages through the Canadian North West. 0887680811
Book ID: 32562More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
FOUR RECORDERS OF RUPERT'S LAND: a brief survey of the Hudson's Bay Company courts of Rupert's Land
Edition: First Edition
Winnipeg: Peguis, 1967. Brown cloth, endpaper maps. pp (16), 192 + plates. Index. Fine copy. Jacket has a short tear to upper inner corner of front panel and likewise to rear panel, VG otherwise.; Octavo
Book ID: 55300More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
LA VÉRENDRYE: his life and times. A biography and a social study of a folklore figure, soldier, fur trader, explorer
Book ID: 55315More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
MINUTES OF COUNCIL NORTHERN DEPARTMENT OF RUPERT LAND, 1821-31. With an Introduction by H.A. Innis
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1940. Tall thick octavo. Red crested cloth gilt, top edges gilt. pp [2], (lxxviii), 480 + ads + frontispiece with tissue guard, top edges gilt. #275 of an edition of 550 copies. Hudson Bay Company Series III. Spine lightly sunned and lightly spotted, with bruise at foot, corner crease to the tissue guard, else a fine copy, no owner names. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Book ID: 29416More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
NUNAGA: my land, my country
Edmonton: Hurtig, 1971. Khaki cloth, colour endpaper maps. pp 285 + plates. Fine in jacket. Author's adventures living and fur trading in the high north among the Eskimos.
Book ID: 44653More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
Papers read before the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Series III, Number 17, 1960-1961
Winnipeg: The Society, 1964. 120 pp, stapled in card covers. Slight sunning to spine and edges, else fine. Printed revised table of contents tipped in. Articles on The Hutterians, fur trade, Manitoba history. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location. ; Octavo
Book ID: 29757More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
SAGKEENG
Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1993. pp (8), 157. Photos in text. Inscribed by the author on a label on the title page. Fine copy. "Sagkeeng tells of the return of the traders, now both French and English, to the region, of the departure of the Cree and the arrival of a host of other aboriginal people from the east and south: Ojibway, Ottawa and Potowatomi. It tells of the fur wars that followed between the rival trading companies and of their tragic impact on the land and on its people. The story concludes when the warring factions unite to form one concern, the Hudson's Bay Company". ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55298More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE BLONDE VOYAGEUR
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1971. Red boards. Rubber stamp of the Canadian Book Information Centre at front, lightl yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has rubbing, VG otherwise. Set in Manitoba, an historical novel of the fur trade.; Octavo 0887680267
Book ID: 48891More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Being the Story of the Adventurers of England Known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New Pages in the History of the Canadian Northwest and Western States
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1911. First one volume edition (first was 1908, in two volumes). Green cloth. pp (xxii), (410); v-(x), 415 + 2 plates and 2 folding maps. Page edges yellowed, bookplate at front, page edges yellowed; VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44890More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST: Being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New Pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
New York: Outing, 1908. Two volumes, blue cloth gilt, dark blue top page edges, other edges rough trimmed. pp (xxii), 409 + addenda slip at p. xiii and numerous plates and maps, folding map at rear; (xii), 415 + plates and maps. Spines a bit sunned with gilt lettering dulled; private bookplate on front pastedowns; 22 April, 1909, ink gift inscription at front of Vol. I; Vol. II has a bruise to lower outer corner of front cover and front inner hinge neatly repaired with rice paper; else a VG clean and tight pair. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 29548More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE HONOURABLE COMPANY. A History of the Hudson's Bay Company. Maps by R.H.H. Macaulay
Edition: First Edition
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1936. Green cloth, dark green lettering. Terra cotta illustrated endpapers, pp. xii, [15] - 396 + plates; maps in text. A VG clean & tight jacketless copy, no owner names. "First Edition" stated. Variant (secondary?) publisher's binding. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.; Octavo
Book ID: 30256More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE PEDLARS FROM QUEBEC and other papers on the Nor'Westers
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Ryerson, 1954. Octavo, red cloth, indexed. Fine copy. Dust jacket has very small chips, internal repair, to spine tips; light rubbing; VG otherwise.
Book ID: 29370More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
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 in that Country.
No place (Toronto): No publisher (Radissson Society of Canada), no date (1927). Maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine, top page edges red. pp iii-xxviii, 498 + frontispiece portrait and 4 other plates inserted, map and 7 illustrations in text. Private book plate at front, very nearly fine otherwise. A reprint of the London, 1801, first edition, with added foreword by the editor of this edition John W. Garvin as well as an Introduction by Charles W. Colby. No. 3 in the publisher's Master-works of Canadian Authors series. 1.5 kg parcel; Octavo
Book ID: 50989More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
WORDARROWS: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade
Edition: First printing
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978. Octavo, brown cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has edge nicks, spine spine sunning, slight rubbing, VG otherwise. Signed by the author. With the ink ownership surname of a noted Canadian Indian novelist inside front cover (hidden by jacket flap) and his tiny pencil initials on front free endpaper. ; Signed by Author 0816608598
Book ID: 35663More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00