First edition of one of the "Big Three" books on the fur trade of the Pacific Northwest (with those of Ross and Franchere). Tweney remarks that "at the age of eighteen, Cox arrived in Astoria in 1812. He remained with the Company until its dissolution, when he joined the Northwest Fur Company and returned by crossing the continent in 1817..." Field 376; Graff 893; Hill 390; Howes C822; Peel 95; Smith 2078; Streeter 3702; Tweney 10; Wagner-Camp 43:1. With the bookplates of Thomas Connolly and small shelf labels on the front pastedowns.