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Lot 116
[BRITISH EXPLORATION]. A group of 5 works in 5 volumes, various 8vo and folio sizes, condition generally fine. 
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$300 - 400
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$252
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Lot Description
[BRITISH EXPLORATION]. A group of 5 works, comprising:


BUTLER, William Francis, Sir (1838-1910). The Great Lone Land. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. -- LYON, George Francis (1796-1832). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay. London: John Murray, 1825. Contemporary full calf gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- LYON, George Francis (1796-1832). The Private Journal of Captain G.F. Lyon of H.M.S. Hecla During the Recent Voyage of Discovery Under Captain Parry. London: John Murray, 1824. Later green half morocco. FIRST EDITION. -- TREVOR-BATTYE, Aubyn (1855-1922). Ice-Bound on Kolguev. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Company, 1895. Publisher's green cloth. -- The Arctic World: Its Plants, Animals, and Natural Phenomena. London: T. Nelson and Sons, [n.d]. Publisher's red cloth gilt. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, various 8vo and folio sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Collector's bookplates, a few pencil marks.

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