Voyage de la baye de Hudson. Fait en 1746 & 1747, pour la Découverte du Passage de Nord-Ouest. Contenant une description exacte des Côtes & l'Histoire Naturelle du Pays, avec une Relation historique d

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Author: Henry Ellis (1721-1806) Year: 1749 Publisher: Ballard Fils Place: Paris Description: 2 volumes. 182 pages with fold out frontispiece map and three additional folding engravings; 319 pages with seven folding engravings. half-titles in each (title pages improperly marked, first volume as second and vice versa). Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 3 1/2") bound in original publisher's full uniform contemporary French sponged calf, with gilt-tooled spines. First French edition after the 1748 English edition. Henry Ellis was a traveler, hydrographer, and colonial governor, returned from Italy in 1746, just in time to find an expedition to search for a north-west passage on the point of sailing. He appears to have been in easy circumstances; his name stands in the list of subscribers to the north-west expedition, and he had sufficient interest to get attached to it, nominally as agent for the committee, and really as hydrographer, surveyor, and mineralogist, the expedition, consisting of two vessels, the Dobbs galley of 180 and California of 150 tons, left Gravesend on 20 May 1746, joined the Hudson's Bay convoy in Hollesley Bay, and finally sailed from Yarmouth on the 31st. They parted from the convoy on 18 June, made Resolution Island on 8 July, and after a tedious passage through Hudson's Straits rounded Cape Digges on 8 August, and on the 11th 'made the land on the west side the Welcome, in latitude 64° N.' Bad weather drove them to the southward, and prevented their doing anything mor

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