DOWN TO THE SEA: YARNS FROM THE LABRADOR

by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York, Chicago, Toronto, London and Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1910 . Octavo, twelve inserted plates with illustrations from photographs, original pictorial gray cloth stamped in white and black. First edition. Grenfell, an English physician and advocate of the muscular Christianity so characteristic of the Victorian period, went to sea as a medical missionary and, after discovering the woeful conditions of

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