Part Dispatch George Simpson Esqr by Rich E E (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library. First Edition. No. 493 of 550 copies. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4." Pages lii, [3] 4-277, complete. Fifteen additional pages in back list the names of Society officers, Members, and Subscribing Libraries. Preface and Introduction in front. "Appendix A: Supplementary Documents," "Appendix B: Biographical," and Index in back. A few library marks present. Pages are clean and intact overall but have whiteout on a library mark on front pastedown, numerical ink stamp at bottom of Contents page, a few small stains on front and back pastedowns and first and last few leaves, age toning, and slight bumping to fore-edges. Covers are clean and intact except for slight darkening, light rubbing and fading, faded spot on spine from where a sticker used to be, slight wear to extremities, and a subtle skew in the binding where the front cover leans toward the fore-edge. Binding is loosened along the gutters but is still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. Volume X in The Hudson's Bay Company Series, a subset within The Publications of the Champlain Society series. This volume contains the transcription of a dispatch originally written by George Simpson (c. 1792-1860), the famous Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) administrator. This document records Simpson's second transcontinental journey to the Pacific which took place from 1828-1829. During this trip, Simpson first stopped at York Factory and then took the Peace River Route to the Columbia River. "Appendix A" contains many supplementary documents associated with Simpson's account. The supplementary documents are categorized into four categories, "The China Trade," "The American Boundary: The Columbia River Department, 1824-27," "The American Boundary: The Foreign Office, 1828-29," and "General." Front colophon: "Five Hundred and Fifty Copies of this Volume have been printed. Fifty are reserved for Editorial purposes. The remaining Five Hundred are supplied only to Members of the Society and to Subscribing Libraries. This copy is No. 493.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, i-lii, 277 pp. Blue buckram , top edge gilt, contents partly uncut. Light fading to the spine but a very good copy. No 1298 of an unspecified limited edition for subscribers to The Hudson Bay Records Society.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. 550 Copies. Husason;s Bay Company Series X Introduction by W. Stewart Wallace. Signed on front flyleaf. 'H Simpson Winnipeg Aug.9th 1958. A Grand nephew of Lady Frances Simpson. Red cloth bing. Spine a little faded. 277pp. Indexed. Content clean, bright and sound, This book is large and may require additional postage. Signed By H. Simpson a Grand N.

Red cloth with gilt titles. #229 of a Ltd edition of 550 copies. lii,277,xiii Pp. Hudson's Bay Company Series X .With an introduction by W. Stewart Wallace Vg. Bookplate of Reginald Hibbert Tupper (grandson of Sir Charles Tupper) inside front cover.

Condition: Very good. lii, 277, xv pp. Octavo in original red cloth. Crested copy. Gilt top edge, others uncut. Mild staining on the rear board and spine. Includes charts, appendixes, index, list of members and subscribing libraries included. Copy #363 of 550 limited copies for the Champlain Society. Very good copy. Governor Simpson's observations from Hudson Bay to the Pacific in 1828; three dispatches of 1829 from the Athabasca Department, Thompson River District and the Snake River are printed in this copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Toronto: Champlain Society, 1947. Thick 8vo. Limited edition. lii + 277pp + x. Crimson cloth. Bookplate. Near fine. HBC Expedition to the Pacific. Includes a 52-page introduction by fur trade historian W. Stewart Wallace. This volume includes George Simpson's dispatches from the Athabasca Department, Thompson River District and the Snake River. It also includes biographical profiles of major fur traders including Colin Fraser, William McGillvray, Archibald McDonald, among others, with a detailed account of the affairs of the Columbia District. Supplementary documents on the American boundary question are also included. [Smith 62; Strathern 506].

1947, Limited. (Cloth) Near fine. 277pp. T.e.g. Volume 10. Introduction by W. Stewart Wallace.

Condition: Fine Condition. One of 550 numbered copies. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with the title and society emblem stamp ed in gilt on the spine, t.e.g. Uncut. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper.