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

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Lot 973
  • 973

O'Reilly, Bernard

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Description

  • Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean, illustrated in a Voyage to Davis's Strait. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 4to (267 x 209mm.), vi, [ii], 294pp., 3 maps [2 folding], 18 aquatint plates, contemporary half calf over red cloth boards, full gilt spine, red label, marbled endpapers, title page and frontispiece slightly spotted

Provenance

James Lamont (1828-1913), Knockdow, armorial bookplate; Lamont was an arctic explorer and yachtsman

Literature

Abbey, Travel 633; Hill (2004) 1263; Lauridsen I.110; Staton & Tremaine 1125

Catalogue Note

Bound in before the text of this work is the printed "Introductory chapter" (pp.ix-xxiv) and "Official Instructions" (pp.xxi-xxiv) which have been extracted from Sir John Franklin's Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Seas (1828).