![[DOBBS, Arthur]. A Short State of the Countries and Trade of North America. Claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company, under the Pretence of a Charter for Ever, of Lands without Bounds or Limits, and an exclusive Trade to those unbounded Seas and Countries. London: J. Robinson, 1749.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2007/NYR/2007_NYR_01820_0158_000(015311).jpg?w=1)
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[DOBBS, Arthur]. A Short State of the Countries and Trade of North America. Claimed by the Hudson's Bay Company, under the Pretence of a Charter for Ever, of Lands without Bounds or Limits, and an exclusive Trade to those unbounded Seas and Countries. London: J. Robinson, 1749.
8o (217 x 130 mm). 44 pages. Contemporary blue wrappers, uncut; red quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION, most likely prepared by the Dobbs group. Appended at pages 25-28 is the standard of trade, as it is obtained in the Bay, in terms of beaver, and pages 29-44 contain an abstract of the weather, etc. from August 1746 to September 1747 from the log of the California on the Moor-Ellis expedition. Alden & Landis 749/249; Sabin 33552; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 219. VERY RARE.
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FIRST EDITION, most likely prepared by the Dobbs group. Appended at pages 25-28 is the standard of trade, as it is obtained in the Bay, in terms of beaver, and pages 29-44 contain an abstract of the weather, etc. from August 1746 to September 1747 from the log of the California on the Moor-Ellis expedition. Alden & Landis 749/249; Sabin 33552; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 219. VERY RARE.