LESLIE, Sir John, Robert JAMESON, and Hugh MURRAY. Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions: With Illustrations of their Climate, Geology, and Natural History; and an Account of Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, 1835.
8vo. Contemporary full maroon morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, ornamented in blind and gilt; pp. 484, lithographic folding plate, title with vignette, wood-engravings in the text (a few full-page), light rubbing to extremities, bookplate (school-prize?) removed, light browning or spotting internally; an attractive copy, contemporary collector's stamp James R. Wilson to front fly-leaf, initial blank, verso of map, and at foot of title-page.
First published in 1831, this was a popular history of Polar voyages, from Pytheas to Parry and Ross.
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