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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2526BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 14, 2010 11:00AM
Description:
(Arctic Exploration) Three titles: Back, Sir George (1796-1878),Narrative of An Expedition in H.M.S. Terror..., London: John Murray, 1838, first edition, original cloth, with twelve plates and folding map, (map with tear, signatures loose, spine defective; Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the late Polar Search, by the Officers and Seamen of the Expedition, London: Colburn and Co., 1852, original gilt cloth, pictorial frontis, 8vo, (spine lacking, first leaves sprung); Beechey, Frederick William (1796-1856),A Voyage of Discovery Towards The North Pole, London: Richard Bentley, 1843, first edition, original cloth, two folding maps and six plates, 8vo, (spine off and partial, some springing to leaves, bumped).
Estimate $400-600