[DOBBS, ARTHUR] REASONS TO SHEW, THAT THERE IS A GREAT PROBABILITY OF A NAVIGABLE PASSAGE TO THE WESTERN AMERICAN OCEAN, THROUGH HUDSON'S STREIGHTS, AND CHESTERFIELD INLET. LONDON: J. ROBINSON 1749 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (197 x 110mm.), 24pp., half calf, red label, old marbled boards "Dobbs' theory of the location of the Northwest passage, with affidavits, p.15-23, of Henry Ellis and Jeremiah Westhall on conditions around Hudson's Bay" (Staton & Tremaine). Although published anonymously, the work closely allies itself to Dobbs' position. For Ellis' account of his voyage to Hudson's Bay see lot 436.
[DOBBS, ARTHUR] REASONS TO SHEW, THAT THERE IS A GREAT PROBABILITY OF A NAVIGABLE PASSAGE TO THE WESTERN AMERICAN OCEAN, THROUGH HUDSON'S STREIGHTS, AND CHESTERFIELD INLET. LONDON: J. ROBINSON 1749 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (197 x 110mm.), 24pp., half calf, red label, old marbled boards "Dobbs' theory of the location of the Northwest passage, with affidavits, p.15-23, of Henry Ellis and Jeremiah Westhall on conditions around Hudson's Bay" (Staton & Tremaine). Although published anonymously, the work closely allies itself to Dobbs' position. For Ellis' account of his voyage to Hudson's Bay see lot 436.
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