Lot 515
  • 515

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700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Papers relative to the Recent Arctic Expeditions in Search of Sir John Franklin and the crews of H.M.S. “Erebus” and “Terror”. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1854
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FIRST EDITION, folio (335 x 210mm.), [2], 226pp., 5 folding lithographed maps, illustrations in the text, original printed blue wrappers, blue morocco-backed cloth box, some wear to spine of wrappers

Literature

Arctic Bibliography 45241

Condition

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