JOHN RAE (1813-1893) Narrative of an expedition to the shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847. London: Marchant Singer & Co. for T.& W.Boone, 1850. 8° (222 x 142mm.). 2 folding engraved maps, handcoloured in outline. (Small tears to inner margins of maps, B1 with 25mm. tear to upper blank margin, F7, F8 and L1 somewhat crudely opened.) Original green cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt (very slight discolouration to spine), modern cloth box. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'The purpose of the expedition, sent out by the Hudson's Bay Co., was to explore and map the arctic coast of Canada from Repulse Bay west to Dease and Simpson's farthest exploration eastward... or if Boothia Felix proved to be a peninsula, to trace the coast north to the place surveyed by John and James Ross 1829-32. The narrative gives an account of the author's boat journey north from Churchill along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Repulse Bay, portage across Rae Isthmus and exploration of southern Committee Bay; the wintering at Repulse Bay, the spring journeys tracing the shores northwestward around Committee Bay, Simpson Peninsula, Pelly Bay and its islands, to the James Ross ... Peninsula ..., and northeastward along Melville Peninsula to Cape Crozier.' ( Arctic Bibliography ). Also included are lists of the various mammals, birds, plants, rocks and fish collected by Rae. Arctic Bibliography II, 14097; Sabin 67428; Wagner Camp 187.
JOHN RAE (1813-1893) Narrative of an expedition to the shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847. London: Marchant Singer & Co. for T.& W.Boone, 1850. 8° (222 x 142mm.). 2 folding engraved maps, handcoloured in outline. (Small tears to inner margins of maps, B1 with 25mm. tear to upper blank margin, F7, F8 and L1 somewhat crudely opened.) Original green cloth, covers and spine blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt (very slight discolouration to spine), modern cloth box. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. 'The purpose of the expedition, sent out by the Hudson's Bay Co., was to explore and map the arctic coast of Canada from Repulse Bay west to Dease and Simpson's farthest exploration eastward... or if Boothia Felix proved to be a peninsula, to trace the coast north to the place surveyed by John and James Ross 1829-32. The narrative gives an account of the author's boat journey north from Churchill along the west coast of Hudson Bay to Repulse Bay, portage across Rae Isthmus and exploration of southern Committee Bay; the wintering at Repulse Bay, the spring journeys tracing the shores northwestward around Committee Bay, Simpson Peninsula, Pelly Bay and its islands, to the James Ross ... Peninsula ..., and northeastward along Melville Peninsula to Cape Crozier.' ( Arctic Bibliography ). Also included are lists of the various mammals, birds, plants, rocks and fish collected by Rae. Arctic Bibliography II, 14097; Sabin 67428; Wagner Camp 187.
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