Celestial & Terrestrial Exploration
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Lot 88
LYON, George Francis, Captain (1796-1832). A Brief Narrativ...
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LYON, George Francis, Captain (1796-1832). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe's ?Welcome", in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year 1824. London: John Murray, 1825. 8vo. Engraved folding frontispiece map, 7 engraved plates. [200] pp. Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt, brown gilt morocco lettering label on spine (front board detached but present, binding worn, soiled, chipped, rear joint starting, text occasionally foxed, a few upper corners creased, some occasional offsetting from plates). Good. Provenance: armorial bookplate of George John Dupuis on fp. (the vice provost of Eton). FIRST EDITION of another account of an attempt at the Northwest Passage; this one through Hudson Bay. Arctic Bibliography 10530. Sabin 42851. Hill 1055.
