376 + [8] ad pp. Translated & edited by J.V. Huntington. Illustrated with 3 wood-engraved plates. 7¼x4¾, original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition in English.

Franchere's work (first published in Montreal in 1820) was "the first printed account in book form of John Jacob Astor's scheme for a fur trading company with headquarters at the mouth of the Columbia, and the first printed account of the overland journey back from Oregon to the east through Canada" (Streeter 3691). To this translation of the original the author added a Preface, an additional chapter and an Appendix. Howes F310; Sabin 25432; Smith 3244; Tweney 21; Wagner-Camp 16:2.