Historical View Of The Progress Of Discovery On The More Northern Coasts Of America, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time…With Descriptive Sketches Of The Natural History Of The North American Regions…To Which Is Added An Appendix, Containing Remarks On A Late Memoir Of Sebastian Cabot, With A Vindication Of Richard Hakluyt…[Harper s Family Library No. LIII].

TYTLER, Patrick Fraser [1791-1845] & James WILSON.

Published by New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833., 1833

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12mo. pp. [2]ads, 2, 360, [12]ads. folding engraved frontis. map & 9 wood-engraved text illus. (incl. title vignette). original printed bds. (covers foxed, joints partly split & chipping, periodic light foxing). First American Edition. Outlining the Arctic and northern explorations and discoveries of Cabot, Verazzano, Behring, Cook, Meares, Vancouver, Kotzebue, Mackenzie, Hearne, Beechey, Franklin, &c., and with chapters on the natural history and geological features of these regions. TPL 7334. Sabin 97658. cfSmith 10386. cfLande 1492. cfPeel 247.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Historical View Of The Progress Of Discovery On The More Northern Coasts Of America, From The Earliest Period To The Present Time…With Descriptive Sketches Of The Natural History Of The North American Regions…To Which Is Added An Appendix, Containing Remarks On A Late Memoir Of Sebastian Cabot, With A Vindication Of Richard Hakluyt…[Harper s Family Library No. LIII].
• Publisher: New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833.
• Publication Date: 1833
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadiana/Americana