Description
Bell, Charles Napier. The Journal of Henry Kesley (1691-1692); Transaction No. 4 (New Series); 24th May, 1928. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Dawson Richardson Publications, Limited, 1928. First printing. pp. 43. Stapled card covers. One black and white map affixed to title page entitled, “Map of British North America”, accompanied with many other maps of the lands of The Hudson’s Bay Company. Ink name to title page and verso front cover, short note in ink to the margin of page 33 (unaffecting the text). Overall, very good. “The first white man to reach the Saskatchewan River from Hudson Bay, and the first to see the Buffalo and the Grizzly Bear of the Canadian Plains – with notes on some other experiences of the man”. Charles Napier Bell was the president of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba at the time of the writing of this paper. Scarce. Stapled Wraps. (#131) $60.00