An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. 2 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145 mm). xx, 551, Appendix 82; viii, 574 plus [2] pp ads. First volume with an ad slip and 4 pp advert in front. 24 plates, many folding (several misnumbered). Original boards, uncut. Rebacked with labels and partial spines laid down, rubbed, staining and foxing. FIRST EDITION. "The first volume of this work relates to the progress of discovery in the Arctic regions, and the natural history of Spitzbergen and the Greenland sea; the second is devoted to the whale-fishery as conducted in the seas of Greenland and Davis's Strait. Mr. Scoresby, the commander of a Greenland whaler, has here displayed much judicious and active observation, combined with no ordinary share of acquired knowledge and scientific attainment, and prompted by an ardent and generous zeal for useful discovery" (Sabin 78167). "This standard work comprises all that most persons can wish to know of the subjects of which it treats" (Rich); and "This, together with a voyage to Greenland, published subsequently by the same author, is full of most valuable information on the meteorology and natural history of this part of the world, besides containing interesting particulars of the whale-fishery" (Macculloch). Books on Ice 2.2.
An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. 2 volumes. 8vo (225 x 145 mm). xx, 551, Appendix 82; viii, 574 plus [2] pp ads. First volume with an ad slip and 4 pp advert in front. 24 plates, many folding (several misnumbered). Original boards, uncut. Rebacked with labels and partial spines laid down, rubbed, staining and foxing. FIRST EDITION. "The first volume of this work relates to the progress of discovery in the Arctic regions, and the natural history of Spitzbergen and the Greenland sea; the second is devoted to the whale-fishery as conducted in the seas of Greenland and Davis's Strait. Mr. Scoresby, the commander of a Greenland whaler, has here displayed much judicious and active observation, combined with no ordinary share of acquired knowledge and scientific attainment, and prompted by an ardent and generous zeal for useful discovery" (Sabin 78167). "This standard work comprises all that most persons can wish to know of the subjects of which it treats" (Rich); and "This, together with a voyage to Greenland, published subsequently by the same author, is full of most valuable information on the meteorology and natural history of this part of the world, besides containing interesting particulars of the whale-fishery" (Macculloch). Books on Ice 2.2.
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