Lot 111
Mackenzie, Alexander
Voyages from Montreal
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
On the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America. London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘From the author to W. Finnie, London, Jan[uar]y 1810’ on title-page, 4to (27 x 20.5cm), contemporary streaked calf gilt, marbled edges, lacking half-title, retaining errata leaf at end, engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved folding maps, 1 hand-coloured in outline, occasional staining and foxing, offsetting from frontispiece portrait, occasional pencil annotations, boards and spine worn [Howes M-133; Sabin 43415]
Provenance
By direct descent from the recipient, a member of the prominent Finnie merchant family of Kilmarnock, Scotland.