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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (-). Later Edition. From the collection of Wayne Prescott Suttles, renowned anthropologist, scholar, and linguist regarding many Pacific cultures, and especially the U.S. Pacific Northwest Coast Salish people. His stamp to ffep. Provenance provided upon request. "George Simpson's Journal Entitled Remarks Connected with the Fur Trade in the Course of a Voyage from York Factory to Fort George and Back to York Factory 1824-25." Condition notes: 370 numbered pp; HB w/DJ. Pages: clean, bright, tight, beige eps, double map frontis; t.e. slightly dusty. Cover: brown, gilt titles spine; minimal shelfwear, slight rubbing to front joint, DJ: unclipped, cream, brown artwork + brown/black titles front, black titles spine; v lt edge/shelfwear w. tiny tear to head and spine a bit sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover in dust jacket, 1968, 1st printing, clean/tight, No marks/tears or defects; Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble wrap the book and ship it in a New BOX- Not a plastic bag like the zombie sellers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine (spine faded to a light beige). 6 1/4" x 9." Pages xxxvi, [3] 4-370, complete. Appendix A, Appendix B, and Index in back. One folding map laid in back pocket, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and small spots of foxing limited to edges of text block. Covers are very clean and intact except for sunning or fading along spine. Binding is somewhat shaken but still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. Volume XXXI of the Harvard Historical Studies. This volume contains the text of a journal kept by George Simpson (c. 1792-1860), a Scottish explorer, entrepreneur, and colonial governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, during his 1824-1825 expedition from York Factory to Fort George and back. Excerpt from Introduction: "The accompanying journal of George Simpson is a memoir of trade and of empire. . His account opens with his embarkation in a North canoe on Hudson Bay bound for the Pacific and for the work of reorganizing this trade. He gives a lively narrative of his swift journey across the continent, with comments interspersed on the state of trade along his route. In Oregon the record becomes a record of Indian life, of trade problems, of the slashing reforms by which he revived a demoralized and profitless industry, and of his plans for holding possession of the country against any future competition of Americans. By the spring of 1825 he was on his way back to the east to report the results of his tour to his Council, a journey which proved to be a perilous one, and which is correspondingly exciting in the narrative.".…

1931, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good plus. 370pp. Folding map in pocket at rear. Harvard Historical Studies Vol. 31. Peel(3) 160.