The North-West Passage. Capt. M'Clure's Despatches from Her Majesty's Discovery Ship Investigator off Point Warren and Cape Bathurst

by Robert McClure

$9,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Folding map. 48pp. 8vo. Contemporary purple blindstamped cloth, spine sunned, blue and gold ribbon affixed to top of boards, bookplate to front pastedown, library stamp and marks to front free endpaper, ms. ink ownership inscription to top of title-page, several ms. ink annotations throughout. Arctic Bib. 10565; Hill 1122; Sabin 43074; cf. Staton & Tremaine 3372 later edition . Item #366576

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