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Full Account of the late Expedition To Canada
Hovenden Walker, 1720
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Full Account of the late Expedition To Canada
Hovenden Walker, 1720
WALKER, Hovenden (1656?-1728?). A Journal: Or Full Account of the late Expedition To Canada. With an Appendix containing Commissions, Orders, Instructions, Letters, Memorials, Courts-Martial, Councils of War, &c. relating thereto. London: Printed for D. Browne, W. Mears, and G. Strahan, 1720.
First edition of the Commander's account of the failed British attempt to take Quebec in 1711. Sir Hovenden Walker's expedition to take Quebec from the French was seriously hampered from the start. An unfortunate ruse for secrecy meant that they were drastically under-provisioned and the English greatly overestimated both colonial American enthusiasm for the project and navigational knowledge. This volume is Walker's effort at self-vindication, based on memory, a pocket diary, and papers from the Admiralty. Most of Walker's original logs and charts from the expedition were lost in an explosion in 1711. Alden & Landis 720⁄237; Howes W-39 ("b"); Lande 886; Sabin 101050.
Octavo (194 x 116mm). Letterpress tables and reproduction of the monument claiming the area around the Spanish River (Sydney Harbor, N.S.) for the English. (Intermittent pale browning.) Contemporary gilt-ruled calf (rebacked to style). Provenance: Ernest E. Keet (bookplate).
Hovenden Walker, 1720
WALKER, Hovenden (1656?-1728?). A Journal: Or Full Account of the late Expedition To Canada. With an Appendix containing Commissions, Orders, Instructions, Letters, Memorials, Courts-Martial, Councils of War, &c. relating thereto. London: Printed for D. Browne, W. Mears, and G. Strahan, 1720.
First edition of the Commander's account of the failed British attempt to take Quebec in 1711. Sir Hovenden Walker's expedition to take Quebec from the French was seriously hampered from the start. An unfortunate ruse for secrecy meant that they were drastically under-provisioned and the English greatly overestimated both colonial American enthusiasm for the project and navigational knowledge. This volume is Walker's effort at self-vindication, based on memory, a pocket diary, and papers from the Admiralty. Most of Walker's original logs and charts from the expedition were lost in an explosion in 1711. Alden & Landis 720⁄237; Howes W-39 ("b"); Lande 886; Sabin 101050.
Octavo (194 x 116mm). Letterpress tables and reproduction of the monument claiming the area around the Spanish River (Sydney Harbor, N.S.) for the English. (Intermittent pale browning.) Contemporary gilt-ruled calf (rebacked to style). Provenance: Ernest E. Keet (bookplate).
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