Lot 256
  • 256

Chappell, Edward

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Chappell, Edward
  • Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond containing some Account of the North-Eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes inhabiting that remote Region. London: J. Mawman, 1817, [xii], 280pp., [ii pp. adverts], engraved folding map, 4 plates, the first page of adverts with a near contemporary cutting from a newspaper "The Esquimaux" pasted over it
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IBID. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Rosamond to Newfoundland and the Southern Coast of Labrador. London: J. Mawman, 1818, [x], xx, 270, [ii] pp., engraved folding map, 3 plates

FIRST EDITIONS, together 2 works by Chappell, 8vo (218 x 132mm.), uniform black calf, spine decorated in gilt and blind, flat raised bands, red endpapers, yellow edges

Literature

Sabin 12005 and 12006; Staton and Tremaine 976 and 941

Condition

Fine copies
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Catalogue Note

The first work relates to a voyage during the period May - November 1814 and contains an appendix of the Cree language; the second to a voyage in 1813, both on the Rosamond.