A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773.London, William Bowyer and John Nichols for J. Nourse, 1774. Large 4to. With 15 large double-page and larger folding engraved plates, and many letterpress tables in the text. Contemporary tree calf, gold-tooled board edges, rebacked soon after with a richly gold-tooled spine with globes and numerous floral stamps, red morocco spine-label.
PHIPPS, Constantine John. · 1773 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€4,000.00 ($4,419.48 | £3,341.12 | ¥706,533)
VIII, 253 pp.First edition of Phipps's account of his expedition to the Arctic. The expedition with the ships Racehorse and Carcass sailed north by way of the Shetlands, reaching the coast of Spitsbergen on 29 June 1773. They passed Magdalena Hoek in early July, but were unabl...
