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[8], 387, [1] pp. Illustrated with frontispiece, 21 wood-engraved plates and two maps. (8vo) 23x15 cm (9¼x6"), later half cloth & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First French Edition.

The first edition in French of Milton and Cheadle's The Northwest Passage by Land, translated by J. Belin-De Launay, with the authors' permission. This account of the explorers' trip, by horseback from Edmonton by way of the Frazer and Thompson rivers to Fort Kamloops in the summer of 1863, is now believed to have been entirely the work of Cheadle, based on comparison with his own journal. Wagner notes that Cheadle's description of the Cariboo mines is one of the best in existence. The two maps are: Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Bretagne; and Portion Occidentale de la Nouvelle Bretagne. Both are double-page, and show the routes of Milton and Cheadle. Wagner-Camp 420 (note). Sabin 49144.