Lot 419
  • 419

DUNCAN, DAVID

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Arctic Regions. Voyage to Davis' Strait. London: [Privately] Printed by E. Billing... for the author, 1827
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (230 x 140mm.), xvi, 126pp., half-title, folding lithographed plate, original grey paper-backed blue boards, uncut, printed title label, spine slightly worn

Rare. The title continues, "...Sailed from London 3rd April, 1826, and returned 25th June, 1827; having been beset by Ice more than Eight Months; during seventy-five Days of which the Sun never rose above the Horizon: with an Account of the Hardships and Dangers sustained by the Crew, and many miraculous escapes".

Literature

Sabin 21253; Staton & Tremaine 1433

Condition

A very good copy
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