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[DONNET, J. J. L.; editor.] Arctic Miscellanies. A Souvenir of the Late Polar Search. 8vo, publisher's cream cloth gilt, foxed; front hinge starting; interior generally clean save for some minor even age toning. Publisher's ads in the rear. London: Colburn and Co., 1852
first edition. inscribed in french by the editor on the half-title. "At their winter quarters off Griffin Island in Barrow Strait, the officers and men of Resolute and Assistance produced in manuscript two gently competing newspapers, the Illustrated Arctic News (Resolute) and Aurora Borealis (Assistance). This scarce volume is a compilation of articles extracted from the latter"--Books on Ice 3.8; Arctic Bibliography 651; Sabin 1924 (incorrectly dating the First Edition as 1851); TPL 3128.
From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.
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