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Lieutenant William Henry James Browne.
Ten Coloured Views taken during the Arctic Expedition of Her Majesty's Ships "Enterprise" and "Investigator," under the command of Captain Sir James C. Ross... with a summary of the various arctic expeditions in search of Captain Sir John Franklin... and his companions in H.M.Ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London: C.Whiting for Ackermann & Co., 1850. 2° (370 x 275mm). 10 tinted lithographic views on seven sheets, drawn on stone by Charles Haghe after Browne, printed by Day & Son, with touches of red added by hand to the first and fourth views. (Some soiling and spotting to margins of plates.) Original cloth, covers with border blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt beneath a gilt-blocked flag, pale cream glazed endpapers, gilt edges (rebacked, covers soiled). Abbey Travel II.637; Arctic Bibliography 2344; Sabin 8678 (or 73366); cf. Savours The Search for the North-West Passage p.190; Staton & Tremaine 3047.
Ten Coloured Views taken during the Arctic Expedition of Her Majesty's Ships "Enterprise" and "Investigator," under the command of Captain Sir James C. Ross... with a summary of the various arctic expeditions in search of Captain Sir John Franklin... and his companions in H.M.Ships "Erebus" and "Terror". London: C.Whiting for Ackermann & Co., 1850. 2° (370 x 275mm). 10 tinted lithographic views on seven sheets, drawn on stone by Charles Haghe after Browne, printed by Day & Son, with touches of red added by hand to the first and fourth views. (Some soiling and spotting to margins of plates.) Original cloth, covers with border blocked in blind, the upper cover titled in gilt beneath a gilt-blocked flag, pale cream glazed endpapers, gilt edges (rebacked, covers soiled). Abbey Travel II.637; Arctic Bibliography 2344; Sabin 8678 (or 73366); cf. Savours The Search for the North-West Passage p.190; Staton & Tremaine 3047.
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