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William SCORESBY (1789-1857). An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a description of the northern whale-fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson & Co. in London, 1820. 2 volumes, 8° (220 x 138mm). 6pp. publisher's advertisements, one small advertisement leaf, half-titles. 24 engraved plates and maps, 20 plates, 5 folding, uncut. (Titles and frontispieces browned and spotted, some other marginal spotting, small tear to large folding map.) Original boards, paper title labels to backstrips (chips to extremities, labels rubbed). Provenance: J. Talbot Clifton (of Kidalton, armorial bookplate). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 15610 (incorrect plate count); Sabin 78167.
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W.SCORESBY. Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery; including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson & Co. of London, 1823. 8°(204 x 130mm). Half-title. 6 engraved plates, 2 folding, 2 folding engraved maps. (Maps with repaired tears, folding plates torn and repaired at folds, occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (scuffed, rebacked with original labels laid down, modern endpapers). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 15614; Sabin 78171; together with five other works in twelve volumes by or on Scoresby, senior and junior (W.SCORESBY. Journal of a Voyage to Australia and round the world, London, 1859, 8°; W.SCORESBY. Memorials of the sea. My Father: being records of the adventurous life of the late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby. by his son, London, 1851, 12°; R.E.SCORESBY-JACKSON. The Life of William Scoresby... by his nephew, London, Edinburgh & New York, 1861, 8°; THE EXPLORERS CLUB [publishers]. Seven Log-Books concerning the Arctic Voyages of Captain William Scoresby, Senior of Whitby, England... Introductory Brochu., Edited by Freerick S.Dellenbaugh, New York, 1917, 8 vols. W.SCORESBY. Tagebuch einer Reise auf den Wallfischfang, Hamburg, 1825, 8°). (15)
William SCORESBY (1789-1857). An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a description of the northern whale-fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson & Co. in London, 1820. 2 volumes, 8° (220 x 138mm). 6pp. publisher's advertisements, one small advertisement leaf, half-titles. 24 engraved plates and maps, 20 plates, 5 folding, uncut. (Titles and frontispieces browned and spotted, some other marginal spotting, small tear to large folding map.) Original boards, paper title labels to backstrips (chips to extremities, labels rubbed). Provenance: J. Talbot Clifton (of Kidalton, armorial bookplate). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 15610 (incorrect plate count); Sabin 78167.
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W.SCORESBY. Journal of a voyage to the northern whale-fishery; including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. and Hurst, Robinson & Co. of London, 1823. 8°(204 x 130mm). Half-title. 6 engraved plates, 2 folding, 2 folding engraved maps. (Maps with repaired tears, folding plates torn and repaired at folds, occasional browning and spotting.) Contemporary calf (scuffed, rebacked with original labels laid down, modern endpapers). First edition. Arctic Bibliography 15614; Sabin 78171; together with five other works in twelve volumes by or on Scoresby, senior and junior (W.SCORESBY. Journal of a Voyage to Australia and round the world, London, 1859, 8°; W.SCORESBY. Memorials of the sea. My Father: being records of the adventurous life of the late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby. by his son, London, 1851, 12°; R.E.SCORESBY-JACKSON. The Life of William Scoresby... by his nephew, London, Edinburgh & New York, 1861, 8°; THE EXPLORERS CLUB [publishers]. Seven Log-Books concerning the Arctic Voyages of Captain William Scoresby, Senior of Whitby, England... Introductory Brochu., Edited by Freerick S.Dellenbaugh, New York, 1917, 8 vols. W.SCORESBY. Tagebuch einer Reise auf den Wallfischfang, Hamburg, 1825, 8°). (15)
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