Markham, Clements Robert

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (220 x 136mm.), xvi, [ii], 358pp., [ii pp. adverts], 8 folding maps [5 coloured], original decorated purple cloth, dark green endpapers, bevelled edges, slipcase, spine slightly faded

PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Admiral Sir Alexander Milne G.C.B. with the Author's compliments".

An historical survey of Arctic exploration, region by region, with the object to "give the public a correct knowledge of the whole line of frontier separating the known from the unknown region round the North Pole, to recall the stories of earlier voyagers, to narrate the recent efforts of gallant adventurers of various nationalities to cross the threshold, to set forth the arguments in favour of a renewal of Arctic exploration by England..." (Preface).