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(ARCTIC.) Back, George, Sir. Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River,and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean. Folding map, 16 plates. x, [2], 663, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, spine worn, backstrip coming detached; short closed tear to map; uncut. With 8 and 4 pages of May 1836 publisher's ads bound in. London, 1836
first edition, regular-paper issue. Back set out from Great Slave Lake in search of the lost Ross expedition. When Ross was reported safe, Back explored north along what is now called the Back River until reaching the sea. Arctic Bibliography 851; Hill 42 ("one of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration"); Lande 935; TPL 1873.
