Through the Mackenzie Basin: A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899; Notes on the Mammals and Birds of Northern Canada

Hardcover. Brown cloth with two photographic cover insets. 494 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs; folding colour map. Bookplate on front pastedown; hinges started; title page slightly detached (about 2 1/2″), and first signature shaken; edges tanned, with small narrow stain to fore-edge, not penetrating margins. Mair’s narrative of the Athabaska and Peace River Treaty expedition (150 pp.) is followed by his friend MacFarlane’s Notes on the Mammals and Birds of Northern Canada, comprising the remainder fo the volume. Mair was the author of “Tecumseh: A Drama”, and English Secretary of the “Half-Breed Commission”, a government department to deal with the nation’s Metis.