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Memoire Sur La Navigation Dans la Mer Du Nord depuis le 63 degre de latitude vers le Pole, & depuis kle 10 au 100 degre Longitud
by Engel, Samuel (1702-1784)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
[4]+28+[2] pages lacking the map. Small quarto (10" x 7½") rebound in ¾ morocco & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. (Sabin 22572) First edition.
Rare account of travels into the arctic, most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier, Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle, Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique... Lausanne, 1765.
Condition:
Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within, hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.
Rare account of travels into the arctic, most notably Nova Zemblya to the north of Europe. Twelve years earlier, Engel wrote his notable work on explorations on the other side of the Arctic Circle, Memoires et observations geographiques et critiques sur la situation des pays septentrionaux de l'Asie et de l'Amerique... Lausanne, 1765.
Condition:
Rubbing to joints and extremities; some minor staining and soiling within, hinge professionally repaired else a very good copy. Only five copies found on worldcat.
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- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- BOOKS000337
- Title
- Memoire Sur La Navigation Dans la Mer Du Nord depuis le 63 degre de latitude vers le Pole, & depuis kle 10 au 100 degre Longitud
- Author
- Engel, Samuel (1702-1784)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- F Sanuel Fetscherin
- Place of Publication
- Berne
- Date Published
- 1779
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ARCTIC
- Bookseller catalogs
- Voyages and Discovery;
- Size
- Small quarto
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