HIND (Henry Youle): NARRATIVE OF THE CANADIAN RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF 1858, London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860

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HIND (Henry Youle): NARRATIVE OF THE CANADIAN RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION OF 1858, London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860

FIRST EDITION 2 vols., 8vo (223 x 140mm.), 8 coloured maps and plans, 3 folding, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 20 chromoxylograph plates with tinted borders (borders a little discoloured), publishers' adverts. at the end of vol. I and printed list Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's Settlement on the Red River of the North to illustrate a narrative of the Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Rupert's Land by Henry Youle Hind pasted at the front of vol. I, original purple blind-stamped cloth, unopened (spines faded), bookplate of W.R.M. Wynne

Abbey Travel 630; Sabin 31934 "During this exploration, Mr. Hind lived almost constantly among the Crees and Chippeways, whose habits and peculiarities he was most eager to study, and prompt to record".

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