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M'KEEVOR, Thomas. A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, During the Summer of 1812. London: Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1819.
A handsome copy of the first edition. M’Keevor’s account provides detailed descriptions of icebergs and the Inuit people he encountered as a ship’s doctor on the Selkirk expedition of 1812. Contains a short additional account of the French naval officer Christophe-Paulin de La Poix Fréminville’s Voyage to the North Pole. The present copy is the variant with 78 pp. rather than 76 pp. in the first part (preface included in pagination). Arctic Bib. 10643; Lande 1314; Sabin 43396 (listing 8 plates); TPL 910-11.
2 parts in one, octavo (218 x 135mm). Aquatint frontispiece, 5 aquatint plates. Partially unopened. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked to style. Provenance: Sir John Ogilvy (bookplate) – Wayfarer’s Bookshop.
A handsome copy of the first edition. M’Keevor’s account provides detailed descriptions of icebergs and the Inuit people he encountered as a ship’s doctor on the Selkirk expedition of 1812. Contains a short additional account of the French naval officer Christophe-Paulin de La Poix Fréminville’s Voyage to the North Pole. The present copy is the variant with 78 pp. rather than 76 pp. in the first part (preface included in pagination). Arctic Bib. 10643; Lande 1314; Sabin 43396 (listing 8 plates); TPL 910-11.
2 parts in one, octavo (218 x 135mm). Aquatint frontispiece, 5 aquatint plates. Partially unopened. Contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rebacked to style. Provenance: Sir John Ogilvy (bookplate) – Wayfarer’s Bookshop.