Buy this book on-line John Ross : A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin’s Bay, and Enquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage. / By John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal NavyLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, c. 1819.
Contemporary full calf boards with gilt lines, spine tastefully rebacked in six compartments of raised blind-tooled bands and gilt nautical motifs, gilt green label on two, gilt text on six, board edges gilt-tooled and inner dentelles blind-tooled, all edges speckled red., A fine copy, text and plates are clean and crisp, bound in full decorative period gilt calf., 8vo. , P. (2), title, blank, dedication, blank, introduction v-lxiii, glossary lxiv-lxvi, contents lxvii-lxix, blank, 1-265, blank; title, blank, contents (2), 1-60, appendix 61-258, (2)., With three unpaginated plates (and one in-text diagram), including the folding map of the Canadian Arctic and a folding plate of geological instruments used on the expedition., Volume : Two volumes in one. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of John Ross : A Voyage of Discovery, Made Under the Orders of the Admiralty, in His Majesty’s Ships Isabella and Alexander, for the Purpose of Exploring Baffin’s Bay, and Enquiring into the Probability of a North-West Passage. / By John Ross, K.S. Captain Royal Navy. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres illustrées, out-of-print books, fine bindings and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |