D[avid] Murray Smith: Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76

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D[avid] Murray Smith : Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76

John G. Murdoch, London, 1877

Original decorative gilt full morocco boards with gilt vignette, all edges gilt, spine in six compartments of raised bands, densely gilt floral motifs, and titles on two and four. , Occasional faint browning, otherwise a very good copy bound in period gilt full morocco decorative binding., Large 4to, P. frontis, title, contents v-xviii, 1-824., Complete with 2 coloured folding maps, 22 tinted lithographed plates (including 5 portraits), and 2 chromolithographed plates.

A compendious history of Arctic exploration, but with the bulk of the work recounting in detail the British Admiralty voyages of the 19th century, especially those of Ross, Parry, Franklin and the Franklin Search expeditions., Arctic Bib 16282 (variant imprint)

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