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PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE JOHN, second Baron Mulgrave. A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command. 1774
PHIPPS, CONSTANTINE JOHN, second Baron Mulgrave. A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command. 12 double-page engraved plates; 3 folding maps; 11 folding tables (included in pagination). [8], 253 pages, including half-title; lacks the final leaf with binder's directions. 4to, contemporary tree calf, spine handsomely gilt, chipped at top, joints cracked, cords intact; engraved matter variously foxed and/or offset. Armorial bookplate of Frederick William Nash. London: W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774
- Notes: first edition of the official account of the 1773 expedition of the ships Racehouse and Carcass. Although blocked by pack ice north of Spitsbergen, they reached a record 80º48''N. Books on Ice 1.10; Hill 1351. bound with: Horsley, Samuel. Remarks on the Observations made in the Late Voyage towards the North Pole, for determining the Acceleration of the Pendulum, in Latitude 79º 50''. 15 pages. London: B. White and P. Elmsley, 1774.
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