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[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6.
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6. - 2
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6. - 3
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6.
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6. - 2
[BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION] Arctic Expedition
1875-6. - 3

MBA004: Lot 65. [BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION]

Arctic Expedition, 1875-6.

£800 - £1200

Arctic Expedition, 1875-6. 89390
Journals and proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6, under the command of Captain Sir George S. Nares, R.N., K.C.B. … Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1877.
London H.M.S.O., 1877.

One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.

The Nares expedition is one of the best documented Arctic expeditions, with eight Parliamentary Blue Books alone devoted to it between 1875 and 1878. Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote “[The Arctic Blue Books] are beyond comparison the most important tool of knowledge in this field …”

Description

First edition. Folio, viii, 484pp., 16 folding maps, 16 plates, illustrations in the text, contemporary blue half roan, marbled boards, lightly faded, neat restoration to extremities, an excellent copy.

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