The Honourable Company

Mackay, Douglas

Published by Musson, Toronto, 1938

About this Item

SUBTILED : ` A History of the Hudson Bay Company '. This 318 page account begins about 1670 and carries through to about 1935. The appendices - includes INDEX - add a further 70 plus pages. LEARN more about Deed Poll, King Charles II, Empire, William Ewart Gladstone, Russian Governor Etholine, Okhotsk, Made Beaver, pemmican, Yerba Buena, and Rocky Mountain House. Several b/w images ( mostly photographs) are interspersed within text. Cond : Boards are navy blue with gilt lettering. End-papers are pictorial. Dust jacket is missing. Volume is clean and square though the outer shell is lightly worn. Binding tight. No names nor marks. Neither tears. Excellent reference copy. QUote (p. 29) : " Thus two outlaw parties, one from New France and one from New England, plus an armed ship with the authority of the English Crown, all converged upon the mouths of the Nelson and Hayes rivers in the autumn of 1682. All that was adroit, cunning and diplomatic in ._._._. . ". Seller Inventory # 017057

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Honourable Company

Publisher: Musson, Toronto

Publication Date: 1938

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: B/W Plates

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 2nd Edition