HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF AMERICA, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. By Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq., F.R.S. & F.S.A.; With Descriptive Sketches of the Natural History of the North American Regions By James Wilson, F.R.S.E. & M.W.S. To Which is Added an Appendix, containing Remarks on a Late Memoir of Sebastian Cabot, with a Vindication of Richard Hakluyt. Illustrated by a Map, and Nine Engravings by Jackson.
Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, Tweeddale-Court, and Simpkin & Marshall, MDCCCXXXII (1832), First Edition (& 1st printing). 12mo. (6.9 x 4.5 inches), publisher's original brown moire cloth, printed paper label on spine panel. 444 pp., engraved vignette title, folding frontispiece map of northern North America, eight engravings in the text. Issued as Volume IX in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library Series. Foxing to endpapers, folding map, tissue guard and engraved title. cloth rubbed, 1-inch long split to cloth at top front edge of spine panel. A good, sound copy. Item #313512
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