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LOVE (MARY) OR LUCY LYON) A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. To Which is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady, FIRST EDITION, H.R. Thomas, Juvenile Repository, 1825 image 1
LOVE (MARY) OR LUCY LYON) A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. To Which is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady, FIRST EDITION, H.R. Thomas, Juvenile Repository, 1825 image 2
THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
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LOVE (MARY) OR LUCY LYON)
A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. To Which is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady, FIRST EDITION, H.R. Thomas, Juvenile Repository, 1825

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[LOVE (MARY) OR LUCY LYON)]

A Peep at the Esquimaux; or, Scenes on the Ice. To Which is Annexed, a Polar Pastoral... By a Lady, FIRST EDITION, 40 hand-coloured woodcut illustrations (20 full-page), 4pp. of advertisements at end, some off-setting, later calf gilt, by R. Wallis, spine tooled within raised borders, red morocco lettering label, g.e., slightly rubbed [Lande 2066; Osborne I, 75], 8vo, H.R. Thomas, Juvenile Repository, 1825

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RARE FIRST EDITION of an early Arctic children's book by "A Lady." It is attributed to either to Mary Love, a native Canadian, or to Lucy Lyon, the wife of Captain George Francis Lyon who travelled to the Arctic with Parry, and on whose illustrations the woodcuts in this work are based.

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