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 de toutes les Expéditions faites jusqu'ici

Author: Henry Ellis (1721-1806)Year: 1749Publisher: Ballard FilsPlace: ParisDescription: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