Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the east coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool
por Scoresby, William Junior
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Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd. 1823. Octavo Size. Good++ condition. Half leather, marbled boards, title patch to top of spine. Bookplate to front paste-down. Leather lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Rear board has a small chip to leading edge. Plate 1 - the general map, is a copy (sympathetically copied) tipped in as original plate torn out. All other maps/plates are present and original. Some foxing throughout. A very clean, tight copy of this important work. 472 pages. An account of a voyage in which several weeks were spent in whaling and in the exploration of the Scoresby Sound region, in a search for Eskimo settlements and in quest of magnetic and other scientific observations. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
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- BIB202791
- Título
- Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; including researches and discoveries on the east coast of West Greenland made in the summer of 1822, in the ship Baffin of Liverpool
- Autor
- Scoresby, William Junior
- Formato/Encadernação
- Hardback
- Estado do livro
- Usado -
- Edição
- 1st Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- Archibald Constable & Co Ltd
- Local de publicação
- Edinburgh
- Data de publicação
- 1823
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- 0.00 libras
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