Description Of A View Of The North Coast Of Spitzbergen Now Exhibiting In The Large Rotunda Of Henry

by Frederick William Beechey

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First edition

London: printed by Jas.-W. and Chas. Adlard, 1820. Small 8vo, pp. 12; engraved folding plate slightly spotted ; very good in contemporary brown wrappers. In the first edition of the pamphlet published the preceding year, A view of Lausanne, and the lake of Geneva in the title is replaced with An interesting representation of the city of St. Petersburg, is open in the upper circle. Ostensibly, the earliest polar panorama, depicting the exploits of Capt.

• Binding: Wrappers

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