Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the eastern coast of West Greenland, made in the summer of 1822 in the ship Baffin of Liverpool

by William Scoresby

$65 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

Whitby, Yorks: Caedmon of Whitby, 1980. Facsimile reprint of the 1823 edition. Octavo 22cm . Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xliii,472pp; eight inserted leaves of plates, including two folding maps. Fine in a Near-Fine jacket with three titles on rear flap crossed out by the publisher. A well-produced reprint on good paper of this important and early account of Arctic exploration. From the library of noted zoologist and Curator

• Binding: Hardcover

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