Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, and Round the World: Being Personal Narratives of Attempts to Reach the North and South Poles; and of an Open-Boat Expedition up the Wellington Channel in Search of Sir John Franklin and Her Majesty's Ships "Erebus" and "Terror," in Her Majesty's Boat "Forlorn Hope," Under the Command of the Author. To Which are Added an Autobiography, Appendix, Portraits, Maps, and Numerous Illustrations (2 volumes)
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. 432; 412; 16pp. Quarto [26 cm] Blue cloth over boards lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt and black ink. Ex-library, with the usual markings, including rubbed out markings on the spine. Cloth at spine ends chipped. Periodic cracks to the text blocks. Some uncut pages. Occasionally the plates are not facing the pages as listed in the List of Illustrations and Maps, however all are present. In volume I, the plate at p. 258 and pp. 259-270 are hanging on by a single thread. Frontispiece in volume II detached at the head.
Ex-libris Charles Atwood Kofoid, with his personalized bookplate on the front pastedowns. Kofoid (1865-1947) was an American zoologist known for his collection and classification of a multitude of new species of marine protozoans which established marine biology on a systematic basis. He also remembered as the inventor of an innovative trawling net for plankton that could be closed or opened from the trawler, so that collecting could be pinpointed to a specific depth. Good. Item #71459
A work describing several Arctic and Antarctic explorations made by British Royal Navy Surgeon, explorer, and naturalist Robert McCormick (1800-1890).
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