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Begg, Alexander

History of British Columbia from its Earliest Discovery to the Present Time

1894

101,52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1894
Luogo di stampa
Toronto. William Briggs
Autore
Begg, Alexander
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - North America Canadiana
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [22.5 x 15.5 cm]; xvii, [i], [i, errata page], [7]-568 pp, frontis portrait with tissue guard, 118 illustrations including many portraits, large colored folding map at rear [tears at folds], extra tinted lithographed plate of Cape Mosman BC at end. original brown cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, gilt BC coat of arms on front cover, and seal on spine, bookplate of Alexander Douglas [writer to the Signet] on endpaper, lightly toned in some margins but a clean fine copy. A picture of thi Watters 652. Lowther 1097: 'A popular account which contains numerous quotations from pioneer journals and letters'. Lande 945. The author was a journalist, civil servant and emigration commissioner who persuaded many Scots to settle in Canada, was also a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and helped to define border between Canada and Alaska.
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