ELLIS (Henry). Voyage de la Baye de Hudson, fait en 1746 et 1747, pour la découverte du passage de Nord-Ouest. Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1749. 2 volumes in-12, marbled calf, smooth spine decorated, marbled edges (Binding of the period). First French edition, translated from English by Gottfried Sellius and illustrated with a folding map and ten plates out of text engraved by J.-J. Flipart. The work begins with a history of the attempts made since John Cabot to discover this famous passage, supposedly linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the ice of northern Canada. This is followed by a description of the coast, an abridged natural history of the country, descriptions of ice floes, the Inuit peoples (who were little known at the time), the effects of scurvy, and remarks on magnets, winds, climate, whales, etc. From the library of Antoine Dénatière, with bookplate. One spine cap trimmed, minor scattered foxing. Sabin n°22313 - Chadenat, n°568.