Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 846
  • 846

Markham, Albert Hastings

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300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia. London: Sampson Low [&c.], 1874
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (216 x 140mm.), xxiv, 320pp., 48pp. adverts, folding coloured map, 8 plates, illustrations, original pictorial blue pebble-grained cloth gilt, slipcase

Catalogue Note

After the admiralty refused Markham’s offer of Arctic service, he took advantage of a period of leave to join the whaler Arctic as second mate on its journey to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia in order to study ice conditions.