Property from the estate of
MARVIN S. FREILICH, M.D.
HEARNE, SAMUEL. A Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson Bay, to the Northern Ocean.... In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. London: for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, sold by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. 4to, 340 x 241 mm. (12 x 9½ in.), contemporary speckled calf, covers panelled with double gilt fillet and small leaf and flower roll-tool, spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, edges blue-sprinkled, joints rubbed, corners and board edges abraded with some loss to leather, head of lower joint split, upper inner hinge weak, light dust-soiling to upper margins of first 20 leaves, small marginal stains to N3, Tt2v and 3A1r, marginal tear to U4, folding map slightly offset and with small hole at fold juncture, a bit of very light foxing to plates and smaller maps. FIRST EDITION, text printed on light blue paper, large folding engraved map of Hearne's routes on his two journeys from Hudson Bay west and north to the Coppermine River, the routes hand-colored, 4 full-sheet engraved plates and 4 engraved full-sheet maps after Hearne. Hill, p. 141; Lande 1220; Sabin 31181; Streeter sale VI, 3652.
Hearne was the first European to travel overland to the Arctic Ocean. The journal is a day-to-day account of three expeditions undertaken on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in order to investigate reports of copper mines in the north and to search for the fabled Northwest passage whose existence was still hoped for at this late date. "Failing not once but twice, this determined Englishman reached the Coppermine River in December 1770 and followed it to its mouth [on the Arctic Ocean]. He gives much attention to the natural history and to the Indian tribes of the region... The negative result of this journey was the proof that there was no possibility of finding the Northwest passage through Hudson Bay" (Lande). The posthumous publication of Hearne's work was due to La Pérouse, who found Hearne's manuscript journal after capturing Fort Albany on Hudson's Bay and returned it to the Hudson's Bay Company, urging its publication.
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HEARNE, SAMUEL. A Journey from the Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson Bay, to the Northern Ocean.... In the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, & 1772. London: for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, sold by T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1795. 4to, 340 x 241 mm. (12 x 9½ in.), contemporary speckled calf, covers panelled with double gilt fillet and small leaf and flower roll-tool, spine in six compartments tooled in gilt, red morocco lettering-piece in the second, edges blue-sprinkled, joints rubbed, corners and board edges abraded with some loss to leather, head of lower joint split, upper inner hinge weak, light dust-soiling to upper margins of first 20 leaves, small marginal stains to N3, Tt2v and 3A1r, marginal tear to U4, folding map slightly offset and with small hole at fold juncture, a bit of very light foxing to plates and smaller maps. FIRST EDITION, text printed on light blue paper, large folding engraved map of Hearne's routes on his two journeys from Hudson Bay west and north to the Coppermine River, the routes hand-colored, 4 full-sheet engraved plates and 4 engraved full-sheet maps after Hearne. Hill, p. 141; Lande 1220; Sabin 31181; Streeter sale VI, 3652.
Hearne was the first European to travel overland to the Arctic Ocean. The journal is a day-to-day account of three expeditions undertaken on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in order to investigate reports of copper mines in the north and to search for the fabled Northwest passage whose existence was still hoped for at this late date. "Failing not once but twice, this determined Englishman reached the Coppermine River in December 1770 and followed it to its mouth [on the Arctic Ocean]. He gives much attention to the natural history and to the Indian tribes of the region... The negative result of this journey was the proof that there was no possibility of finding the Northwest passage through Hudson Bay" (Lande). The posthumous publication of Hearne's work was due to La Pérouse, who found Hearne's manuscript journal after capturing Fort Albany on Hudson's Bay and returned it to the Hudson's Bay Company, urging its publication.
Hearne was the first European to travel overland to the Arctic Ocean. The journal is a day-to-day account of three expeditions undertaken on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company in order to investigate reports of copper mines in the north and to search for the fabled Northwest passage whose existence was still hoped for at this late date. "Failing not once but twice, this determined Englishman reached the Coppermine River in December 1770 and followed it to its mouth [on the Arctic Ocean]. He gives much attention to the natural history and to the Indian tribes of the region... The negative result of this journey was the proof that there was no possibility of finding the Northwest passage through Hudson Bay" (Lande). The posthumous publication of Hearne's work was due to La Pérouse, who found Hearne's manuscript journal after capturing Fort Albany on Hudson's Bay and returned it to the Hudson's Bay Company, urging its publication.