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BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. 1843 A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole.
BEECHEY, FREDERICK WILLIAM. A Voyage of Discovery towards the North Pole . . . to which is added, A Summary of All the Early Attempts to Reach the Pacific by Way of the Pole. 6 plates comprising 4 etchings and 2 folding tinted lithographs; folding lithographed map in front cover pocket. 8vo, original gilt-lettered dark blue cloth, spine faded to brown, ends chipped, cover corners bumped; etched plates variously foxed, first lithographed plate repaired on verso, the second loose. 19th-century armorial bookplate of Baron Elphinstone, and his Carberry Tower Library booklabel. London, 1843
- Notes: first edition. "Lt. Beechey first served as second-in-command to John Franklin aboard HMS Trent in 1818 when David Buchan in HMS Dorothea and Franklin attempted to sail across the North Pole to Asia, a voyage frustrated by icepack. This book is the standard account, written much later in Beechey''s distinguished career"--Books on Ice 2.11. Arctic Bibliography 1230; Hill 97.
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