Published by The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1939
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
cxxxi, 372 pp. 8vo, publisher's red cloth gilt-lettered on the spine, t.e.g. First edition; No. 279 of 550 copies. A fine copy. Additional postage applicable for international shipment! The Publications of the Champlain Society; Hudson's Bay Company Series II.
Published by Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1939
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Records Society, London, 1939
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Subscribers Limited Edition. NEAR-FINE WITH SLIGHTLY SUNNED SPINE. BOARDS AND INTERIOR CLEAN AND TIGHT. NO WRITING OR MARKS. NO DUST JACKET AS ISSUED.
Published by The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1939
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 550 copies printed of which this is no. 294. The Publications of The Champlain Society. Hudson's Bay Company Series II. cxxxi, 372, xiii p. 25 cm. Frontispiece with four silhouettes. Red cloth hardcover has slightly faded spine.Tissue guard detached. While the letters do not begin until 1817, they refer as far back as 1809, when Colin Robertson left the North West Company, eventually joining the HBC in 1812. The main body of letters begins after Robertson's second seizure of the North West Company's Fort Gibraltar (Winnipeg) in March 1816 and the Seven Oaks Massacre that June. Ensuing events include Robertson's trial and acquittal in Montreal on charges arising from the seizure of Fort Gibraltar, his ambush and rearrest by North West Company men in 1820, his escape from incarceration to the United States, an additional flight from England to France to avoid debtor's prison, and his appointment as chief factor of Norway House under the reorganized company of 1821.