Copy-Book of Letters Outward, etc: Begins 29th May 1680, ends 5 July 1687

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Author: Edwin Ernest "E E" Rich (1904-1979) editor Year: 1948 Publisher: Published by the Champlain Society for the Hudson Bay Record Society Place: London Description: xli+415+[x members list] pages with maps (some folding), appendices and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with lettering and insignia in gilt, head end pages in gilt. Introduction by E G R Taylor with assistance by A M Johnson. Hudson Bay Record Society Volume XI. First limited edition number 1549. The Letters Outward were the counterpart to the Minutes of the Committee in the administrative system of the Company, and in any study of the early years of the Company they must take their place in direct sequence to the Minutes, carrying into effect the decisions at which the Committee arrived and filling in a good deal of the detail which the formal brevity of the Minutes inevitably excluded. Condition: Some small spots to covers. corners gently bumped else very good to fine.

• Binding: Hardcover

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