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ARMSTRONG (ALEXANDER) A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage, FIRST EDITION, Hurst & Blackett, 1857
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ARMSTRONG (ALEXANDER)
A Personal Narrative of the Discovery of the North-West Passage with Numerous Incidents of Travel and Adventure During Nearly five Years' Continuous Service in the Arctic Regions while in Search of the Expedition under Sir John Franklin, FIRST EDITION, tinted lithographed frontispiece, folding route map (torn with some loss), publisher's blue pebble-grained cloth, yellow endpapers with binder's ticket at rear, extremities rubbed, hinges slightly weak [Hill 34; Sabin 2017], 8vo, Hurst & Blackett, 1857
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First hand account of Robert McClure's voyage in search of Franklin, by the surgeon and naturalist aboard the HMS Investigator. The ship was trapped in ice and abandoned in 1853, until the wreck was discovered by scientists in 2010.



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