Lot 554
  • 554

Goodsir, Robert Anstruther

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Goodsir, Robert Anstruther
  • An Arctic Voyage to Baffin's Bay and Lancaster Sound, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. London: John van Voorst, 1850
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (200 x 117mm.), viii, 152pp., [viii pp. adverts], half-title, lithographed folding map, one lithographed plate, original blindstamped blue cloth, yellow endpapers, uncut, slipcase

Provenance

Edward Whymper, mountaineer and explorer of Greenland, signature on endleaf

Literature

Sabin 27931; Staton & Tremaine 2986

Condition

A good copy
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