May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 369

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
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 engraved plates; folding engraved map. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 calf, spine worn, missing lettering piece; light soiling on title, scattered foxing, minimally affecting plates, plate torn and repaired with cellotape on verso. W. S. C. Russell armorial bookplate. London, 1836

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first edition, regular-paper issue. Arctic Bibliography 851; Hill 42 ("one of the fundamental books on Arctic exploration"); Lande 935.