Live auction - Lot 578
[Antarctica]
Histoire des deux voyages entrepris par ordre du gouvernement anglais [...] pour la découverte d'un passage de l'océan Atlantique dans la Mer Pacifique [...].
Paris, Gide Fils, 1824
Hammer price: €
260
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
8vo; 1 fold. map (few rare spots).
Contemp. half green shagreen, red leather title label on flat spine (spine discoloured and sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
Translation of the accounts of captain John Franklin (1786-1847) and captain William Edward Parry (1790-1855) on their voyages. Ill. with a hand-coloured engr. map by G. Lemaître.
Prov. Old ms. libr. shelf mark.
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