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MOSS, Edward (fl. 1870s). Shores of the Polar Sea: a Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.
The first edition of a landmark of polar landscape art, an attractive copy in unusually nice condition. Moss served as Surgeon on Nares’s ill-fated North Pole expedition. This account of the harrowing journey is illustrated by remarkable chromolithographs after Moss’s drawings, which record the dramatic landscapes, eerie light, and haunting strangeness of the region.
Folio (478 x 333mm). Title printed in red and black, one map, 16 chromolithographs, in-text illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth, edges gilt. Provenance: Ivor Jones (signature) – Explorer Books.
The first edition of a landmark of polar landscape art, an attractive copy in unusually nice condition. Moss served as Surgeon on Nares’s ill-fated North Pole expedition. This account of the harrowing journey is illustrated by remarkable chromolithographs after Moss’s drawings, which record the dramatic landscapes, eerie light, and haunting strangeness of the region.
Folio (478 x 333mm). Title printed in red and black, one map, 16 chromolithographs, in-text illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth, edges gilt. Provenance: Ivor Jones (signature) – Explorer Books.