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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, in the Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. 16 mounted India-proof engraved plates (variously foxed, offsetting onto facing pages); folding engraved map. 4to, 272x212 mm, 19th-century 1/2 morocco gilt with anchor device in spine compartments, spine ends and joints rubbed. Henry Marquand bookplate. London, 1836
first edition, in the scarce large-paper issue, "of which only a few copies were taken for presentation" (Lande). "One of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration . . . The expedition traveled to the Great Slave Lake and discovered the Great Fish River, or Back River, which they traced to the frozen ocean. Back's narrative is full of details about the Cree, Chippewa, Coppermine, and other Indian tribes, upon whom the members of the expedition were obliged to depend during a terrible winter"--Hill 42. Arctic Bibliography 851; Lande 935.
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