Mackenzie, Alexander | First American edition of Mackenzie's Voyages

Mackenzie, Alexander

Voyages from Montreal, on the river of St. Laurence, through the continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793. New-York: G. F. Hopkins, 1802

8vo (210 x 125 mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map; gift inscription to blank endpaper, map linen-backed and browned, occasional light spotting, long vertical tear to p. 35 of the second part, a few other marginal tears. Twentieth-century half-green morocco over cloth, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers; spine faded, lightly rubbed.

First American edition of the classic account of the first crossing of the continent north of Mexico by a European (see preceding lot).

REFERENCES:

Howes M133; Pilling 2387a; Sabin 43415.2

PROVENANCE:

H. Leslie Smith (exlibris stamp to front pastedown)