Lot 166

Polar.- Phipps (Constantine John) A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773, first edition, by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for J. Nourse, 1774.

Hammer Price: £300

Description

Polar.- Phipps (Constantine John) A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved maps and 12 folding plates,11 folding letterpress tables, directions to the bookbinder leaf, first map laid down with some small loss, plates and maps with some tears and repairs, some fully or partially laid down, one map trimmed with slight loss to scale at foot, occasional offsetting, some staining and foxing, some soiling, mostly to margins, ex-library copy with bookplate, ink-stamp to title, nineteenth-century half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, library stickers to spine and upper cover, rubbed with wear to extremities, upper cover detached, [Sabin 62572], 4to, by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for J. Nourse, 1774.

⁂ "An important addition to nautical science which does honor to its author" (Sabin).

Description

Polar.- Phipps (Constantine John) A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's Command 1773, first edition, half-title, 3 folding engraved maps and 12 folding plates,11 folding letterpress tables, directions to the bookbinder leaf, first map laid down with some small loss, plates and maps with some tears and repairs, some fully or partially laid down, one map trimmed with slight loss to scale at foot, occasional offsetting, some staining and foxing, some soiling, mostly to margins, ex-library copy with bookplate, ink-stamp to title, nineteenth-century half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, library stickers to spine and upper cover, rubbed with wear to extremities, upper cover detached, [Sabin 62572], 4to, by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, for J. Nourse, 1774.

⁂ "An important addition to nautical science which does honor to its author" (Sabin).

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