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Arctic Exploration. Ross (John, K.S., Captain Royal Navy), A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty [...], for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin's Bay, and Inquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage, two parts, first edition, John Murray, 1819, title with repaired outer margin (no loss of letters), appendix half-title and subsidiary titles, collating: [vi], xxxix, [1], 252; cxliv pp, illustrated with the full compliment of 3 maps (2 folding; one as frontispiece, with typical off-setting), 25 plates (14 of which are coloured aquatints), and 3 folding charts, some off-setting, occasional minor creases, the odd mark here and there, finely bound in later 20th c tan three-quarter morocco over cloth by Aquarius of London, signed, lettered and tooled in gilt, later endpapers, 4to, [Abbey Travel 634; Arctic Bib 14873; Books on Ice, 2.5; Sabin 73376]
Provenance: John Vine Hall (1774–1860), bookseller and Evangelical, thence by descent; recto blank with his ownership inscription, dated 1825, and a later hand's - J.V.H., Dec:r 1876 (his son?) - timeline of Arctic explorations, with their dated ownership inscription.
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