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An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-west Part of America
by DOBBS, Arthur
- Used
- Condition
- Marginal stain on R3, generally a fine copy
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: J. Robinson, 1744. Marginal stain on R3, generally a fine copy. 4to (278 x 215 mm). Large engraved folding map "New Map of Part of North America" (some minor offsetting). 20th-century brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Provenance: Edward Everett Ayer, presented to the Newberry Library (bookplate, with Newberry removal label). First edition of this important - and scarce - work advocating continued search for a Northwest Passage. "Even if Dobbs used exaggeration as his main literary device, the core of his sermon was perfectly accurate -- that if the Company did not drastically alter its tactics, the French would occupy the new continent's central plains... Its most valuable historical contribution was the description of the extraordinary exploits of a 'French Canadese Indian' named Joseph La France" (Peter C. Newman, Empire of the Sun, 2000, p. 213). Dobbs attacked the Hudson's Bay Company, claiming that their mismanagement of Indian trade had ceded the fur trade to the French in Canada. Dobbs claimed that the Company was undermining efforts to find a Passage in order to protect their monopoly. Field 433; Howes D-373; Lande 1144; NMM 796; Peel 8; Sabin 20404; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 193; Streeter sale VI:3637; Wagner Northwest Coast 549.
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- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
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- Title
- An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-west Part of America
- Author
- DOBBS, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used - Marginal stain on R3, generally a fine copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. Robinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1744
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- Americana;
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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- Device
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- Gilt
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