Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
by ROSS, Sir John
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London: A.W. Webster, 1835.. First edition, 4to, (viii), xxxiii, (i), 740 pp. 25 plates, 8 hand coloured, plus 5 maps and charts and a large folding map hand coloured in outline, final leaf torn across and repaired without loss. Recent half blue morocco, spine sunned, gilt title from the original binding laid onto the upper cover.
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- Title
- Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a residence in the arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. Including the reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross and The Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
- Author
- ROSS, Sir John
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- London: A.W. Webster
- Date Published
- 1835.
- Keywords
- Travel
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