Author: BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael.
Title: Ungava: a tale of Esquimaux-Land.
Description: London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858.Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth, spine richly gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 7 woodengraved plates (including frontispiece and title-page). 509 pp. First edition. - A tale, based on real events as the first trading post is established on Ungava Bay. A group of trappers working in a North American fur-trader settlement are commissioned by the Hudson’s Bay Company to undertake the long and dangerous journey to the northern extremities of Hudson’s Bay to open a new trading post with the Eskimo. - (Some foxing).Sabin 2952; Cf. Arctic Bibliography 1016.
Keywords: Arctic Pole
Title: Ungava: a tale of Esquimaux-Land.
Description: London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1858.Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth, spine richly gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 7 woodengraved plates (including frontispiece and title-page). 509 pp. First edition. - A tale, based on real events as the first trading post is established on Ungava Bay. A group of trappers working in a North American fur-trader settlement are commissioned by the Hudson’s Bay Company to undertake the long and dangerous journey to the northern extremities of Hudson’s Bay to open a new trading post with the Eskimo. - (Some foxing).Sabin 2952; Cf. Arctic Bibliography 1016.
Keywords: Arctic Pole
Price: EUR 104.50 = appr. US$ 113.58 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 37123
- Book number: 37123