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From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93; With a Chapter by W.S. Bruce, Naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'
by Murdoch, W. G. Burn
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1894. ix,(3),364, 32 pages of ads. Octavo. First edition. Original silver decorated dark green cloth. A tiny bit of professional restoration at the top of the spine. Coated black endpapers. Exploration bookplate on front pastedown. Foredge untrimmed. Half title. Minor corner tideline on the bottom of the title page. Two maps (one folding). Numerous illustrations in text. A bit of scattered foxing, more so at the preliminaries. A very bright, little worn, copy. Rosove 234.A1.a; Spence 825, Renard 1108. Signed and dated in 1920 by J. Gordon Hayes on the title page. Hayes published a number of the standard polar histories, including: Antarctica: A Treatise on the Southern Continent; Conquest of the South Pole; Robert: A Record of His Explorations; and The Conquest of the North Pole. Hayes has underlined in pencil in many places as well as made minor pencil notations. Also with the bookplate of Patrick Walcot, a noted retired polar bookseller. Murdoch's account of 'the pioneer British whaling expedition to Antarctica' (Nat. Mar. Mus. Cat.) includes entertaining anecdotes of the minutiae of life on board the ship, in addition to detailed records of animal life and seal-hunting in the Southern Regions. 1894
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 142166
- Title
- From Edinburgh to the Antarctic. An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93; With a Chapter by W.S. Bruce, Naturalist of the Barque 'Balaena'
- Author
- Murdoch, W. G. Burn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Whaling|Polar|Antarctic
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