Item #61091 Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson. John Franklin, Capt.
Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson
Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson
Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson

Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the polar sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson

London: John Murray, 1828. First edition, 4to, pp. [iii]-xxiv, [xxi]-xxiv, 320, clvii, [2]; lacking the half-title and leaf of ads; 31 engraved plates, 6 folding maps including one outlined in blue; plates a little spotted in the margins and the map showing the route of the expedition neatly backed in linen, but still a nice enough copy in contemporary diced and blindstamped calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco label on spine. "Record of an expedition overland in northwestern Canada to the Mackenzie delta, thence to explore the unknown northern coast" (Arctic Bibliography). The team made it as far as Return Point, Alaska, charting on the way Great Bear Lake, the northwestern coast, with John Richardson exploring the Coppermine River. "The beauty of the typography is rivaled by that of the engravings, each of which is a splendid specimen of art (Field)." Arctic Bibliography 5198; Field 561; Sabin 26228. Item #61091

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