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MARKHAM (ALBERT HASTINGS)
The Great Frozen Sea. A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert" during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW EXPLORER LEWIS BEAUMONT, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878

26 February 2020, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MARKHAM (ALBERT HASTINGS)

The Great Frozen Sea. A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert" during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO FELLOW EXPLORER LEWIS BEAUMONT, inscribed on slip pasted to half-title "L.A. Beaumont from his very sincere friend and well-wisher The Author - May 1878", 2 maps (one folding), 6 wood-engraved plates (one loose), double-page colour table, 6pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting and soiling, publisher's pictorial blue cloth gilt, spine slightly soiled, 8vo, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878

Footnotes

Presentation copy from Markham to a fellow member of The British Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876, led by George Nares. Lewis Beaumont was senior lieutenant on board the HMS Discovery, the companion ship to the Alert, and led the third sledging party which explored the coast of Northern Greenland before making a heroic retreat when scurvy hit and two sailors died. Markham's own illustrated autograph journal of the voyage of the Alert was sold in these rooms on June 24, 2015 (lot 136).

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