Vancouver's Island. Copies and Extracts of Despatches and other Papers relating to Vancouver's Island

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20 pp plus rear leaf, folio. Hardcover, rebound. Condition: Very Good, margins are cropped, rebound in modern quarter leatherette with marbled boards, minor corner rubbing; paper toned, browning to page 20 top margin and facing blank, law society stamp to the title and verso of last leaf. Vancouver's Island. Copies and Extracts of Despatches and other Papers relating to Vancouver's Island; also, Copies of Charter of Grant of that Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, with Correspondence thereon; and Report of Committee of Privy Council for Trade on the Grant. (Mr Christy) (Earl of Lincoln) (Mr Hawes). [docket title from verso of last leaf]. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 7 March 1849. No. 103. Lowther 13. "Returns to three addresses, dated August 16, 1848, February 6 and March1, 2849, including copies or extracts of despatches to the Admiralty from Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour, dated H.M.S. Collingwood, Valparasio, Feb. 8, 1847 and from Commander Gordon to Captain Duntze, dated October 7, 1856; letter, dated Fort Vancouver, Sept. 7, 1846, from Peter Keen Ogden and James Douglas to Captain Duntze; reports on soil, climate, minerals and harbours, by Lieutenants Warre and Vavsour, Nov. 1, 1845 and March, 1845; instructions sent by the Admiralty to the commanding officer on the Pacific Station, relative to the coals in Vancouver's Island; charter of grant of Vancouver's Island from the crown to the Hudson's Bay Company; report from the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Plantations, on the said grant. Pp. 9-10 contain a census of the Indian Tribes in the Oregon Territory, from latitude 42 degrees to the latitude 54 degrees". N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1612657780217

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