A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries of North America ... Earl of Selkirk ... Hudson's Bay Company ... Colony on the Red River; WITH Statement Respecting The Earl of Selkirk's Settlement Upon the Red River ... Its Destruction 1815 and 1816
London: Printed by McMillan, Sold By T. Egerton / John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1817. First Edition / Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Octavo. Very Good. Item #42624
2 Volumes bound in one: 1) A NARRATIVE OF OCCURRENCES IN THE INDIAN COUNTRIES OF NORTH AMERICA, SINCE THE CONNEXION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SELKIRK WITH THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY, AND HIS ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH A COLONY ON THE RED RIVER; WITH A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS LORDSHIP'S MILITARY EXPEDITION TO, AND SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS AT FORT WILLIAM IN UPPER CANADA. London: Printed by B. McMillan, Sold by T. Egerton, 1817. First Edition. Attributed to Samuel Hill Wilcocke - The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography / W. Stewart Wallace. Attributed also to Simon McGillivray or to Edward Ellice, the elder - National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Pp. xiv, 152, [iv], 87 - Appendix. Volume 2) STATEMENT RESPECTING THE EARL OF SELKIRK'S SETTLEMENT UPON THE RED RIVER, IN NORTH AMERICA; ITS DESTRUCTION IN 1815 AND 1816; AND THE MASSACRE OF GOVERNOR SEMPLE AND HIS PARTY. WITH OBSERVATIONS UPON A RECENT PUBLICATION ENTITLED "A Narrative of Occurrencies in the Indian Countries," &c. London: John Murray, 1817. A new revised and enlarged edition with the added "Observations Upon a Recent Publication ..." published the same year. Pp. viii, 194, [ii], [i] - [xcx] - Appendix, [4] - publ. adverts dated July, 1817. With a frontispiece map of Part of Hudsons Bay Company's Territory. Drawn and engraved by A. Arrowsmith, London, 12th February, 1817. Bound together in half red morocco and comb-marbled boards, gilt titles direct to spine, top edge gilt, others deckled, matching marbled endpapers with binders' ticket T.W. Taylor, Winnipeg. Covers scuffed, front free endpaper splitting near gutter, some offsetting to text and map, else very good copy.
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