ELLIS, Henry (1721-1806). A Voyage to Hudson’s-Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North West Passage . London: H. Whitridge, 1748. The first edition of Ellis’s work on the search for the Northwest Passage, from the library of Daines Barrington . The second part details the author’s own voyage to explore Wager Bay, organized by Arthur Dobbs, which seemed to definitively prove that no such passage existed. Despite the mission’s failure, Sabin notes that the report contains “many curious and sensible observations” about the region, and the book is notable as an early source concerning the Inuit. See lot 56. Hill 540; Sabin 22312; Streeter sale 3642. Octavo (197 x 119mm). Engraved folding map as frontispiece; 9 plates, 5 of which folding (a few small holes in map, some few spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked to style). Provenance : annotations in pen and red pencil – Daines Barrington (1727-1800, author of Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole; inscription) – Col. Henry B. H. Beaufoy (1876-1851, British bibliophile; bookplate) – James Ford Bell (1879-1961, American collector; morocco seal on pastedown) – PBA Galleries.
ELLIS, Henry (1721-1806). A Voyage to Hudson’s-Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North West Passage . London: H. Whitridge, 1748. The first edition of Ellis’s work on the search for the Northwest Passage, from the library of Daines Barrington . The second part details the author’s own voyage to explore Wager Bay, organized by Arthur Dobbs, which seemed to definitively prove that no such passage existed. Despite the mission’s failure, Sabin notes that the report contains “many curious and sensible observations” about the region, and the book is notable as an early source concerning the Inuit. See lot 56. Hill 540; Sabin 22312; Streeter sale 3642. Octavo (197 x 119mm). Engraved folding map as frontispiece; 9 plates, 5 of which folding (a few small holes in map, some few spots). Contemporary calf (rebacked to style). Provenance : annotations in pen and red pencil – Daines Barrington (1727-1800, author of Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole; inscription) – Col. Henry B. H. Beaufoy (1876-1851, British bibliophile; bookplate) – James Ford Bell (1879-1961, American collector; morocco seal on pastedown) – PBA Galleries.
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