Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 294

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE JOHN, second Baron Mulgrave. A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command. 12 double-page engraved plates; 3 folding maps; 11 folding tables (included in pagination). [8], 253 pages, including half-title; lacks final leaf with binder's directions. 4to, 278x230 mm, modern 1/2 calf with red calf lettering pieces; severe marginal dampstaining through much of volume with traces of mold, paper corrosion in lower outer corner of opening leaves, third map reinforced with tissue along bottom edge, some offsetting on plates and tables toward end. sold as is. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774

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first edition of the official account of the 1773 expedition of the ships Racehorse and Carcass. Although blocked by pack ice north of Spitsbergen, they reached a record 80º 48' N. Books on Ice 1.10; Hill 1351.