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Maps by David Davis. Illustrations

14 black & white and colour illustrations

Assorted of Illus. Christmas card samples tipped iin, numbered from 40 to 64

Illustrations by artist throughout

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B&w & color illus. throughout, a few color maps

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Illustrated by Commander S.Gurney Cresswell, R.N. Fldg map

1 large folding genealogical chart With a Copious Appendix of Royal Charters and Other Documents. Errata slip tipped in. One of the appendices is a copy of the Charter of Nova Scotia 1621 in both Latin and English.

Maps & plates inc frontis of Capt Owen. Owen was a British Naval Officer who came to Canada in 1766 as the secretary to Sir William Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia which then included New Brunswick & some parts of Maine. In 1767 he received a grant for lands that included Passamaquoddy (Outer) Island in the Bay of Fundy. He renamed it "Campobello" in honour of Sir William Campbell.

76 illustrations and 11 maps including fold-out color diagram of the Laurentide Mountains, 2 fold-out color maps of the Canadian west

With 11 colour plates and 19b/w plates. 4 fldg maps in pcket at rear

Fldg map at front

Vol. I has a large partial coloured map as frontis and Vol. II has 3 large folding maps in the rear The record of Franklin's first Arctic expedition, fraught with hardship and tragedy, constitutes one of the classics in the annals of travel literature. In all, the party travelled 5,500 miles overland and with the aid of canoes, exploring the territory from York Factory to the mouth of the Coppermine River on Coronation Gulf, east along the Arctic coast as far as Point Turnagain, and back across the Barren Lands. Provisions were poor and scant, and on the return journey, many crew members died of cold and starvation; the young naval artist Robert Hood was murdered and another executed for the crime. The work also includes accounts by Richardson and Back of the last leg of the desperate journey across the Barren Lands. This edition omits the appendix on the natural history of the region and scientific observations on the aurora borealis and the magnetic needle. Arctic Bib. 5195. Sabin 25625. TPL… Read More

Illustrated

A few b&w illus.

188 black & white plates at end of book and 32 colour plates tipped in

Numerous b&w illus.