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Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall; His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence among the Eskimos During the Years 1864-'69
by Hall, Charles F.; Nourse, Prof. J.E
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- Hardcover
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- Ex-Library
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About This Item
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 4to. [9], ii-l, [2], 3-644 pp. Green cloth with a gilt decoration on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, several folding plates and maps, and several heliotype plates (with Indigenous Americans depicted on a few of the heliotype plates). The textblock also contains in-text wood engravings. Edited under the orders of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, by Prof. J.E. Nourse, U.S.N. U.S. Naval Observatory, 1879. A reading copy. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. With a few library markings from the Hudson Bay Company, this volume lacks its title page and instead has a facsimile title page in its place. Also lacks the folding map normally found in the volume's rear pocket.
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- Evening Star Books
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- Title
- Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall; His Voyage to Repulse Bay, Sledge Journeys to the Straits of Fury and Hecla and to King William's Land, and Residence among the Eskimos During the Years 1864-'69
- Author
- Hall, Charles F.; Nourse, Prof. J.E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Ex-Library
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Government Printing Office
- Place of Publication
- Washington [DC]
- Date Published
- 1879
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Rebacked
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