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Hudson's Bay Company
Sir William SCHOOLING. The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay during Two Hundred and Fifty Years 1670-1920. London: The Hudson's Bay Company, 1920. 4° (277 x 213mm). 2 coloured portraits, uncoloured plates and illustrations, folding map, extra-illustrated with a presentation leaf, a typescript letter signed from the secretary to the governor and committee of the Company and a compliments slip from the governor, all laid down on the front endpapers and first blank leaf. Original reversed calf gilt, t.e.g. (lightly soiled). Provenance: Sir Ernest Clarke (presentation slip and covering typescipt letter). Number Aa253 of an unstated limitation. Presentation copy.
[With:]
John RAE (1813-1893). John Rae's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration 1844-55. Edited by E.E.Rich... with an introduction by J.M.Wordie... and R.J.Cyriax. London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1953. 8° (240 x 165mm). Half-title, series title. Portrait frontispiece, 2 plates, 2 folding maps. Original cloth gilt, t.e.g. Provenance: John M.McPhee (inscription dated 1954, Alaska). Limited edition, this number 658 from an unstated limitation; together with 11 others in 12 volumes, including seven other publications from the Hudson's Bay Record Society. (14)
Sir William SCHOOLING. The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay during Two Hundred and Fifty Years 1670-1920. London: The Hudson's Bay Company, 1920. 4° (277 x 213mm). 2 coloured portraits, uncoloured plates and illustrations, folding map, extra-illustrated with a presentation leaf, a typescript letter signed from the secretary to the governor and committee of the Company and a compliments slip from the governor, all laid down on the front endpapers and first blank leaf. Original reversed calf gilt, t.e.g. (lightly soiled). Provenance: Sir Ernest Clarke (presentation slip and covering typescipt letter). Number Aa253 of an unstated limitation. Presentation copy.
[With:]
John RAE (1813-1893). John Rae's Correspondence with the Hudson's Bay Company on Arctic Exploration 1844-55. Edited by E.E.Rich... with an introduction by J.M.Wordie... and R.J.Cyriax. London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1953. 8° (240 x 165mm). Half-title, series title. Portrait frontispiece, 2 plates, 2 folding maps. Original cloth gilt, t.e.g. Provenance: John M.McPhee (inscription dated 1954, Alaska). Limited edition, this number 658 from an unstated limitation; together with 11 others in 12 volumes, including seven other publications from the Hudson's Bay Record Society. (14)
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