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SCORESBY, WILLIAM, Jr. An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. 2 vols. 1820
SCORESBY, WILLIAM, Jr. An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery. 20 engraved plates; 4 engraved maps; 4 folding tables. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary blue calf, rebacked; engraved matter variously foxed, frontispieces browned, heavily offsetting onto titles, second frontispiece partly separated at fold, half-titles lacking. Edinburgh, 1820
- Notes: first edition. "Scoresby . . . may be said without exaggeration to have laid the foundations of modern Arctic geography by the publication in 1820 of his Account of the Arctic Regions"--Kirwan, page 75. Arctic Bibliography 15610; Books on Ice 2.2.
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