NARRATIVE OF THE CANADIAN RED RIVER Exploring Expedition of 1857 and of the ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN Exploring Expedition of 1858. In Two Volumes by Hind, Henry Youle - 1860

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 2 volumes, pp. xx, 494, [2] - publ. list, 24 - publ. catalogue dated September 1859; xvi, 472; 20 lithographed plates (16 in colour, 4 sepia-toned) with original tissues, 76 woodcut text illustrations, 8 maps hand-coloured (3 folding). Original ornately blind stamped rose-coloured cloth, gilt spine lettering, publishers adverts on pastedowns, with tipped-in insert: four-page prospectus for "Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's Settlement of The Red River of the North, to Illustrate a Narrative of The Canadian Exploring Expeditions in Rupert's Land, by Henry Youle Hind ...", listing 30 photographs taken by Humphrey Lloyd Hime, the expedition's photographer. Covers worn, rubbed, spines faded, front hinge of vol. 1 started, stains on half-titles, stains and abrasions at top of title-pages where stamp removed, else clean, crisp set with exceptionally bright plates. Hind, 1823-1908, was geologist on the Red River exploratory expedition of 1857; in command 1858. "During this exploration Mr. Hind lived almost constantly among the Crees and Chippenays whose habits and peculiarities he was most eager to study, and prompt to record." Sabin 31934; TPL 3820; Peel 221; Streeter 3730.. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Octavo.