The Possibility of Reaching the North Pole Asserted . A New Edition With an Appendix Containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on a Northwest Passage by Colonel Beaufoy
Published by New York, New York, 1818
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First American edition. Original boards with modern paper spine. 187 pp., small folding map. Foxing, some damp stains. Ex-Franklin Institute. Library blind stamps. Untrimmed. A scarce edition of an important work on Arctic exploration, published the same year as the first edition of London. Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 19, 1774 -- Additional proofs, &c. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society. Dec. 22, 1774 -- Postscript. January 8, 1775 -- Additional papers from Hull -- Thoughts on the probability, expediency, and utility of discovering a passage by the North Pole -- A short account of navigators, who have reached high northern latitudes -- Observations on the floating ice, which is found in high northern and southern latitudes -- Appendix. Papers on approaching the North Pole and on a Northwest Passage / By Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. The papers are extracted from Thomson's Annals of philosophy, by permission of Colonel Beaufoy -- On the Northwest Passage; and the insular form of Greenland. Map is of the countries around the North Pole. The title page has a vignette signed by Alexander Anderson. American Imprints 43240, Pomeroy (Alexander Anderson) 570.…
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- Title
- The Possibility of Reaching the North Pole Asserted . A New Edition With an Appendix Containing Papers on the Same Subject, and on a Northwest Passage by Colonel Beaufoy
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- Barrington, Daines
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- New York, New York
- Publication year
- 1818
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