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MCCLURE, ROBERT, Sir. The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator." 1856
McCLURE, ROBERT, Sir. The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. "Investigator," Capt. R. M'Clure, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854. Edited by Commander Sherard Osborn. 4 tinted lithographed plates; partly tinted folding engraved map. Integral ad leaf at end, followed by publisher's 24-page catalogue dated March 1856. 8vo, original gilt-lettered navy cloth, binding slightly cocked, but a crisp, bright copy, with only light offsetting from plates and minor foxing on fore edges. London, 1856
- Notes: first edition. "The H.M.S. Investigator expedition is credited with the first traversal of the Northwest Passage, even though it was intended as a rescue voyage seeking Franklin survivors, and (by explicit orders) not of geographical discovery"--Books on Ice 3.15. Abbey Travel 647; Arctic Bibliography 10563.
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