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SIMPSON, Alexander (b. 1811). The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, The Arctic Discoverer. By His Brother. London: Richard Bentley, 1845. FIRST EDITION.
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SIMPSON, Alexander (b. 1811). The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, The Arctic Discoverer. By His Brother. London: Richard Bentley, 1845.
8vo (220 x 137 mm). Frontispiece portrait & engraved folding map. (Some staining to a few leaves, a few gatherings roughly opened.) Publisher's embossed brown cloth (rebacked preserving original spine, corners bumped). Provenance: Collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks.
FIRST EDITION of Simpson's descriptions of the explorations undertaken by his brother, Thomas Simpson, in Northern Canada between 1829 and 1840. Thomas Simpson died in mysterious circumstances in present-day Minnesota. Arctic Bibliography 16116; Sabin 81338.