The Great Company -A History of the Hudson’s Bay Company

The Great Company Being A History of the Honorable Company of Merchants Adventurers Trading Into Hudson’s Bay, By Beckles Willson, Toronto, 1899.  Hard cover, 541 pages, illustrated, with one fold-out map at front, with additional maps.

Some separating at inside and back covers, but holding fine. cover corners showing light wear, overall light wear.

Nice coat of arms on the cover in gilt and red.

A good reference on the fur trade in Canada beginning in the 1600s, first with the French, and the history into the 1870s, of which Hudson’s Bay supported for all those years.