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A Victorian Earl in the Arctic The travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale 1888-9 by Krech, Shepard
Description
[London]: : British Museum, , [1989]. 4to, . cloth and dustjacket, jacket lightly creased else very good. The detailed route of Hugh Lowther, fifth Earl of Lonsdale, to the Arctic.
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