Item #00545435 A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's 'Welcome,' In His Majesy's Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV. Captain George Francis Lyon.
A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's 'Welcome,' In His Majesy's Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV

A Brief Narrative Of An Unsuccessful Attempt To Reach Repulse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's 'Welcome,' In His Majesy's Ship Griper, In The Year MDCCCXXIV

John Murray, 1825. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good / No Jacket. Item #00545435

Attractively bound in three quarter black calf over marbled boards, with plain orange endpapers. Rubbing along the edges, especially at the corners and along the spine; light foxing and offsetting from the plates, else overall a Very Good copy. xvi + 198 + [2]pp., with 7 plates, one foldout map (frontis), and a couple figures, engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lyon and Kendall. Lyon's narrative of the failed voyage to reach Repulse Bay in 1824.

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