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THOMSON, Charles Wyville (1830-1882). The Voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic... London: Macmillan, 1877. 2 volumes, 8°. Engraved portrait and 58 plates including 12 folding maps, partly in colour, numerous illustrationbs in the text (occasional light foxing). Original green decorated cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut. (head and foot of spines a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION of a preliminary report of the oceanographic explorations of the Challenger which sailed during the years 1872 to 1876.
DU CHAILLU, Paul. Land of the Midnight Sun. London: John Murray, 1881. 2 volumes, 8°. Folding map in a pocket at end of vol. I, folding frontispieces and numerous plates and illustrations (ownership inscription excised from head of titles with no loss). Original pictorial cloth gilt, uncut (a little rubbed). And 13 others. (17)
DU CHAILLU, Paul. Land of the Midnight Sun. London: John Murray, 1881. 2 volumes, 8°. Folding map in a pocket at end of vol. I, folding frontispieces and numerous plates and illustrations (ownership inscription excised from head of titles with no loss). Original pictorial cloth gilt, uncut (a little rubbed). And 13 others. (17)
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