The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H. M.S. “Investigator,” Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.

Name: The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H. M.S. “Investigator,” Capt. R. M’Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854.
Author: [M’Clure, Robert L. M.] Sherard Osborn, ed.

Book Description

Second edition. 8vo. pp. xxxii, 463; port. frontis. of M’Clure, four lithograph plates after originals by Commander S. Gurney Cresswell, one folding map; a little creasing to fore-edges of prelims., slightly shaken in the original blue cloth, gilt, neatly restored to extremities. With the clipped signature of Robert M’Clure pasted to flyleaf.

Dealer Notes

AB 10563. This second edition of M’Clure’s account expands the first edition by the addition of a frontispiece portrait of M’Clure after the original by Stephen Pearce, a new preface, additional tables at the rear, and an additional appendix by Sir Roderick Murchison on geology.

Author [M’Clure, Robert L. M.] Sherard Osborn, ed.

Date 1857

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts

Condition See description

Pages xxxii, 463

Price: £1500.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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