Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans.

In the Years 1789 and 1793 with a Preliminary account of the rise, progress, and the present state of the Fur Trade of that Country.

By Alexander Mackenzie, Esq.

London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. First Edition. 4to (270 x 205 mm). [4pp], vii, cxxxii, 412, [2pp]. with Half-title page, Errata bound at rear. Stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, three folding maps with some hand-coloring. Period full tree calf leather, gilt-lettering on black on spine, front exterior hinge beginning to crack, internal hinge split but tight. Maps with small closed tear at lower hinge, offset from frontispiece, maps and internal pages are very clean. An unusually clean and complete copy of one of the landmarks of North American exploration.

—Brunet III, cols 1280-1281; Cox II, pp. 177-178; Hill 1063; Howes M-133; Lowndes p. 1439; Sabin 43414; Wagner-Camp 1.

Mackenzie’s first account of a North American transcontinental crossing. An important and accurate source on the fur trade and on the Indian languages and customs of the region. The work includes accounts of two expeditions: the first in 1789 from Fort Chipeway to the Arctic Sea and the second in 1792 from the New Establishment on the Peace River to the Pacific Ocean.