SCORESBY WILLIAM An Account of the Arctic Regions with a His

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SCORESBY, WILLIAM. An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. 4 maps, 20 plates, folding tables. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/2 dyed calf; foxing principally to the maps and plates, minor dampstaining in volume 2, lacks the half-title in volume 2; fore-edge and bottom margins uncut. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820

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first edition. Scoresby "may be said without exaggeration to have laid the foundations of modern Arctic geography by the publication in 1820 of his Account of the Arctic Regions"--Kirwan, page 75. Books on Ice 2.2; Sabin 78167; Arctic Bibliography 15610.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.