Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods; The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841 [McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series]
de Gibson, James R
- Usado
- near fine
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Sebastopol, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and the Pacific Northwest discovery and development. This book adds to the previous works on the global trade developed in the late 1700's from journals and other sources related to Russian, Spanish, British, as well as American trade. This book is one of the six in the McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series editied by Bruce Trigger.
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- Librería
- David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 13678
- Título
- Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods; The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841 [McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series]
- Autor
- Gibson, James R
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Montreal
- Fecha de publicación
- 1992
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Pacific Northwest, Fur Trade, Nootka, Alaska, Oregon BIBLIO-LIVE-3
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Exploration;
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David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
Sebastopol, California
Sobre David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA
David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA is an online bookseller specializing in fine books, maps, publications, and ephemera related to Exploration, Adventure and World History with a focus on the Polar Regions, California and the American West. A particular interest is in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration from 1895 to 1920's. Other areas of interest are in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and a little bit of this and that.
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