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Robert M'Cormick (1800-1893)
Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas and Round the World and an Open-boat Journey up the Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope". London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (254 x 162mm.). Half-titles, 65 plates and maps, including 41 tinted lithographs, 6 folding, and 24 wood-engraved views. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black, unopened (upper cover of vol. II slightly soiled). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO H.M. STANLEY. Antarctic Bibliography 23-24.17; Arctic Bibliography 10582; Conrad p. 61; Rosove 221.A1 ('Very scarce'); Spence 747; Taurus 10.
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Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas and Round the World and an Open-boat Journey up the Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope". London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (254 x 162mm.). Half-titles, 65 plates and maps, including 41 tinted lithographs, 6 folding, and 24 wood-engraved views. (Occasional light spotting.) Original blue cloth, blocked in gilt and black, unopened (upper cover of vol. II slightly soiled). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO H.M. STANLEY. Antarctic Bibliography 23-24.17; Arctic Bibliography 10582; Conrad p. 61; Rosove 221.A1 ('Very scarce'); Spence 747; Taurus 10.
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Provenance
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), and thence by descent to the present owner.
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