The North West Company
by Davidson, Gordon Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1918. 349pp. Octavo in original gilt lettered blue cloth with 5 folding maps (including frontispiece) from facsimiles with facsimile notes on verso of Map 4. Decorative bookplate inside front cover. Ph. D thesis in History at University of California, Berkeley, May 1916, of the North West Company by historian Charles Gordon Davidson (1884-1922). A standard work. The first and most comprehensive history of this short-lived Canadian fur trading enterprise of the late 18th and early 19th century. 19 appendices contain the documentary history of the company. Call number on spine/pocket in rear. Text unmarked and clean.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 010027
- Title
- The North West Company
- Author
- Davidson, Gordon Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- Early California History, Fur Trade
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Business/Economics;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
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- Verso
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Facsimile
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- Jacket
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