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[BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS]. Arctic expedition. Further Correspondence and Proceedings Connected with the Arctic Expedition. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1852. FIRST EDITION.

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[BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS]. Arctic expedition. Further Correspondence and Proceedings Connected with the Arctic Expedition. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1852.

Folio (332 x 204 mm). 3 maps [one folding]. (Some toning and light spotting.) Modern half brown morocco; original blue wrappers bound in. Provenance: Nederlandsche Marine (stamp on title-page, library markings on wrappers); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.

FIRST EDITION, including reports about the Bering Strait expeditions, and including an elementary Eskimo grammar. Arctic Bibliography 45229.

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