Lot 42
  • 42

ARCTIC MISCELLANIES

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search. By the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition. London: Colburn and Co., 1852
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xviii, 348pp., 8+24+[ii]pp. adverts, half-title, tinted lithographed frontispiece, original pictorial cream cloth gilt, gilt edges, yellow endpapers, slipcase, spine slightly darkened

Provenance

W. Wyckham, signature

Condition

A very good copy
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Catalogue Note

Loosely inserted is a copy of Contributors to the Aurora Borealis [London, c.1852], 4pp., unbound, naming Sir John Ross, C.R. Markham, Lieut. McClintock, and others. Aurora Borealis was the original title of the work until it was changed to Arctic Miscellanies shortly before publication.