MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM | Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the year 1821. London: For G and W.B. Whitaker, 1822

MANBY, GEORGE WILLIAM

Journal of a Voyage to Greenland in the year 1821. London: For G and W.B. Whitaker, 1822

4to (271 x 211mm.) Folding hand-coloured map of the arctic regions, 20 lithographed plates, text illustrations; spotting and some dampstaining. Contemporary boards, old rebacking. 

First edition of this account by Manby, who travelled with Scoresby on the Baffin. There is much on natural history and the lithographs are among the earliest for English lithography. Scarce. 

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