Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Resicence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 [and:] Appendix, 2 volumes, 1st edition, A. W. Webster, 1835, Narrative: 25 plates including 6 hand-coloured lithographs and 3 mezzotints with printed and hand-colouring (the rest uncoloured steel engravings or lithographs), 6 lithographic maps of which 2 folding. Appendix: 3 steel-engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, 18 lithographic plates (most hand-coloured). Variable spotting and browning to plates, repaired marginal tear to Narrative leaf 3Z3 and facing plate, bookplates of Ernest George Doughty (1836-1915), mid-19th-century blue half calf, spines sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to (27.4 x 21.4 cm) Abbey Travel 636, Nissen ZBI 3481, Sabin 73381 and 73384. Abbey believed this edition to be preceded by Orlando Hodgson's undated octavo edition, which had only eleven plates and lacked an appendix volume, but it is nowadays assumed that Webster's edition has priority. (2)
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Resicence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 [and:] Appendix, 2 volumes, 1st edition, A. W. Webster, 1835, Narrative: 25 plates including 6 hand-coloured lithographs and 3 mezzotints with printed and hand-colouring (the rest uncoloured steel engravings or lithographs), 6 lithographic maps of which 2 folding. Appendix: 3 steel-engraved plates including portrait frontispiece, 18 lithographic plates (most hand-coloured). Variable spotting and browning to plates, repaired marginal tear to Narrative leaf 3Z3 and facing plate, bookplates of Ernest George Doughty (1836-1915), mid-19th-century blue half calf, spines sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to (27.4 x 21.4 cm) Abbey Travel 636, Nissen ZBI 3481, Sabin 73381 and 73384. Abbey believed this edition to be preceded by Orlando Hodgson's undated octavo edition, which had only eleven plates and lacked an appendix volume, but it is nowadays assumed that Webster's edition has priority. (2)
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