Lot 45
  • 45

Armstrong, Alexander

Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Armstrong, Alexander
  • A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage... during nearly Five Years'... in Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xxii, [ii], 616pp., folding coloured map, lithographed frontispiece, original blue pebble-grained cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase, binding slightly rubbed

Provenance

W. Lang, 1869, inscription on title

Condition

A good copy
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