Title: A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71: Being A History of Rupert's Land (the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory) and of the North-West Territory (including the Pacific Slope). Author: Morton, Arthur S. Place: London Publisher: Thomas Nelson Date: [1939] Description: xiv, 987 pp. Illus. with 12 sketch-maps, most folding. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. "An encyclopedic history of the west to 1870" - Peel 3696. Curiously, the jacket for the book was printed on the back of an unissued jacket for the 1938 edition of British Birds by Kirkman and Jourdain - apparently the publisher had a surfeit and did not want them to go to waste. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling to jacket, spine a bit sunned; volume spine ends slightly bumped, very good or better, with the bookplate of John M. McClelland, Jr. Item number: 213588
Title: A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71: Being A History of Rupert's Land (the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory) and of the North-West Territory (including the Pacific Slope). Author: Morton, Arthur S. Place: London Publisher: Thomas Nelson Date: [1939] Description: xiv, 987 pp. Illus. with 12 sketch-maps, most folding. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. "An encyclopedic history of the west to 1870" - Peel 3696. Curiously, the jacket for the book was printed on the back of an unissued jacket for the 1938 edition of British Birds by Kirkman and Jourdain - apparently the publisher had a surfeit and did not want them to go to waste. Lot Amendments Condition: Light soiling to jacket, spine a bit sunned; volume spine ends slightly bumped, very good or better, with the bookplate of John M. McClelland, Jr. Item number: 213588
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