1866 1st ed Henry Hudson River Bay Voyages America Discovery Muscovy Merchant

1866 1^st ed Henry Hudson River Bay Voyages America Discovery Muscovy Merchant

 

This first edition of the late 19^th century book ‘A Historical Inquiry Concerning Henry Hudson’ is a complete history of Henry Hudson from John Read’s discourse to the Historical Society of Delaware. Read gives a history of Hudson his family and the founding of the Muscovy Company of merchants, to his voyage with the Dutch East India Company searching for a Northwest Passage and discovering the Hudson Bay and Hudson River.

 

Read’s discourse was delivered at Wilmington before the Historical Society of Delaware, on its first anniversary. The appendix includes English translations of the printed accounts of Hudson’s last two voyages as related by Hessel Gerritz in 1612-13, as well as extracts from Purchas’ Pilgrimes and De Laet’s Nieuwe Werelt.

 

Larned remarks this book is

“a most scholarlike and admirable example of a species of investigation which lies at the base of all accurate and trustworthy history”.

 

Item number: #12751

Price: $499

 

READ, John Meredith

 

A historical inquiry concerning Henry Hudson, his friends, relatives, and y life, his connection with the Muscovy company, and discovery of Delaware Bay

 

Albany [N.Y.]: J. Munsell, 1866. First Edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • vi, 209, [1]
• References: Howes R 93; Sabin 68170; Larned 819;
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~10in X 6.5in (25.5cm x 16.5cm)

 

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