Part of a Despatch from George Simpson Esqr. Governor of Rupert's Land to the Governor & Committee of The Hudson's Bay Company London March 1, 1829. Continued and Completed March 24 and June 5, 1829.

Toronto: Champlain Society, 1947. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Large octavo. lii, 277, [3], xv [ads and subscriber's list], [1] pp. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering and device, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. Some minor thumb-soiling to cloth and owner's discreet signature but overall a very fresh copy.This work is better known by it's spine title: 'Simpson's 1828 Journey to the Columbia'. "Sir George Simpson, 1792?-1860, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada (1821-56). In 1820 he was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, where he took charge of the important Athabaska fur district. Appointed (1821) governor of the northern department of the company (with which the North West Company was merged that year), he became governor of the northern department of the united company and later was made governor of Rupert's Land and general superintendent of the company in North America. Simpson encouraged exploration of his vast realm; his cousin Thomas Simpson explored the arctic coast, and he himself journeyed constantly (twice crossing the continent) from one wilderness trading post to another. His famous "overland" trip (1841-42) around the world, during which he crossed Siberia to St. Petersburg, is described in his Narrative of an Overland Journey round the World (1847). Simpson was knighted in 1841. His journal (1824-25), edited by Frederick Merk, was published as Fur Trade and Empire (1931). E. E. Rich edited his Journal of Occurrences in the Athabasca Department (1938) and Part of a Dispatch … to the Hudson's Bay Company … 1829 (1947)" (C.E.).