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Arctic exploration
Sir William Edward PARRY (1790-1855). Journals of the first, second and third voyages for the discovery of a North-West passage. London: John Murray, 1828. 5 volumes, 16° (132 x 85mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 folding map and 9 plates. (Preliminary leaves detached in vols.I and II, some light browning.) Contemporary calf gilt (spines faded, extremities lightly rubbed, head of vol.I chipped). Provenance: Swindell (inscription dated 1831). [With:] Sir W.E.PARRY. Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole... in the year 1827... sixth volume. London: John Murray, 1829. 16° (138 x 92mm). Half-title. 2 engraved plates. Original cloth, paper label to spine (spine faded, extremities bumped). A final companion volume to the set above, published a year later.
[With:]
Sir John FRANKLIN (1786-1847). Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea... with a brief account of the Second Journey. London: John Murray, 1829. 4 volumes, 16° (134 x 88mm). 4 engraved portrait frontispieces, 1 folding engraved map and 19 plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt.
John LAING. A Voyage to Spitzbergen; containing an Account of that Country... with an Appendix... Second edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Edinburgh: for Adam Black, 1818. 12° (184 x 110mm). (Without front or rear blanks.) Original boards (rebacked). Provenance: H.R.H. The Duke of York (inscription); Richard Brinsley Sheridan (armorial bookplate). Arctic Bibliography 9583; together with 8 other works in 9 volumes (including: X.MARMIER. Lettres sur le Nord, Paris, 1840, 2 vols., 12°; C.J.G. & F.RIVINGTON [publishers]. Arctic Voyages... in 1818, 1819, & 1820, London, 1831, 12°; C.J.G. & F.RIVINGTON [publishers]. Voyages in the Arctic Seas, from 1821 to 1825, London, 1831, 12°). (20)
Sir William Edward PARRY (1790-1855). Journals of the first, second and third voyages for the discovery of a North-West passage. London: John Murray, 1828. 5 volumes, 16° (132 x 85mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 1 folding map and 9 plates. (Preliminary leaves detached in vols.I and II, some light browning.) Contemporary calf gilt (spines faded, extremities lightly rubbed, head of vol.I chipped). Provenance: Swindell (inscription dated 1831). [With:] Sir W.E.PARRY. Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole... in the year 1827... sixth volume. London: John Murray, 1829. 16° (138 x 92mm). Half-title. 2 engraved plates. Original cloth, paper label to spine (spine faded, extremities bumped). A final companion volume to the set above, published a year later.
[With:]
Sir John FRANKLIN (1786-1847). Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea... with a brief account of the Second Journey. London: John Murray, 1829. 4 volumes, 16° (134 x 88mm). 4 engraved portrait frontispieces, 1 folding engraved map and 19 plates. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt.
John LAING. A Voyage to Spitzbergen; containing an Account of that Country... with an Appendix... Second edition, Corrected and Enlarged. Edinburgh: for Adam Black, 1818. 12° (184 x 110mm). (Without front or rear blanks.) Original boards (rebacked). Provenance: H.R.H. The Duke of York (inscription); Richard Brinsley Sheridan (armorial bookplate). Arctic Bibliography 9583; together with 8 other works in 9 volumes (including: X.MARMIER. Lettres sur le Nord, Paris, 1840, 2 vols., 12°; C.J.G. & F.RIVINGTON [publishers]. Arctic Voyages... in 1818, 1819, & 1820, London, 1831, 12°; C.J.G. & F.RIVINGTON [publishers]. Voyages in the Arctic Seas, from 1821 to 1825, London, 1831, 12°). (20)
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