Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
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CONWAY, William Martin, Sir (1856–1937). The First Crossing...
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CONWAY, William Martin, Sir (1856?1937). The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1897. Royal 8vo. 64 plates (8 colored including frontispiece), 2 folding maps. Original tan buckram?backed beveled green cloth boards, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine toned and edgeworn, some rubbing, soiling to boards, some occasional offsetting to endleaves and in text, some foxing in text, charming contemporary gift inscription and inkstamp on ffep.) FIRST EDITION. ?This volume is an account of the first season's voyage to the island? They made in all 13 mountain ascents, produced a survey sketch of about 600 square miles of central West Spitsbergen, almost completed a circumnavigation of the main island, and made valuable geologic and natural history collections" Arctic Bibliography 3377.
