[PARRY -- FIRST EXPEDITION]. Letters written during the late voyage of discovery in the western Arctic Sea. By an officer of the expedition. London: Richard Phillips, 1821. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION.
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[PARRY -- FIRST EXPEDITION]. Letters written during the late voyage of discovery in the western Arctic Sea. By an officer of the expedition. London: Richard Phillips, 1821.
8vo (226 x 143 mm). Frontispiece map, 3 engraved plates. (Some light spotting.) 20th-century cloth-backed marbled boards uncut. Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of this anonymous account of Parry's first Arctic expedition, which was essentially extracted from Phillips's New Voyages and Travels. Arctic Bibliography 9949; Lande 1288; Sabin 40658; Staton & Tremaine/TPL 4863.
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