Leslie (John) Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions... and an Account of the Whale-Fishery, fourth edition, folding frontispiece, engraved vignette on half-title, illustrations, 4 full-page, ink ownership signature dated 1844, gilt endpapers, frontispiece and p.409 creased, occasional light spotting and browning, nineteenth century straight-grained morocco, school prize lettering stamped in gilt to upper cover, gilt, extremities lightly rubbed, g.e., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1835.
⁂ A scarce example of a school prize binding on this serious travel account. This fourth edition contains additional material to include successive voyages to the Arctic region.
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