Polar Scenes, Exhibited in the Voyages of Heemskirk and Barenz to the Northern Regions, and in the Adventures of Four Russian Sailors at the Island of Spitzbergen.
Translated from the German of M. Campe. 36 hand colored copperplates. b/w title vignette map of the Arctic. 138pp. + 2pp. ads. 16mo, original 1/2 red leather with printed boards; (p. 47 torn with loss of text, spine ends lightly worn, boards edges worn, boards rubbed, last blank page with pencil marks, some light dampstaining and foxing to text). London: J. Harris, 1821. First Edition in English.
Complete with 36 bright plates. The plates have light foxing in margins, but are not dampstained. Juvenile Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Price: $600.00
Item #171146
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