A personal narrative of the discovery of the North-West Passage; with numerous incidents of travel and adventure - Alexander Armstrong

Specificaties

Auteur:
Alexander Armstrong
Uitgever:
Hurst and Blackett
Bindwijze:
Linnen band
Rubriek:

Reisverhalen
Druk:
1
Jaar:
1857
Collatie:
8vo, xxii, [2], 616p. (pp. 128 - 145 mispaginated)
Volumes:
1
Illustraties:
Illustrated with tinted lithographed frontispiece and one hand-coloured folding map
Plaats:
London

A personal narrative of the discovery of the North-West Passage; with numerous incidents of travel and adventure

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First edition. Armstrong was surgeon-naturalist of the H.M.S. Investigator on the 1850-54 expedition under command of Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, sent to continue the search for the missing John Franklin by way of Bering Strait. In the course of the search they were able to confirm without doubt the existence of a North West passage. Ref. Arctic Bibliography 682; Sabin 2017; Chavanne 1540.

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Contemporary blue pebble-grained cloth, flat gilt-lettered spine. Some rubbing and wear to extremities, front inner cracked (first few pages loosening). Ocassional spotting, 1 fold out map repaired with tape, else a good copy of a rare item.

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