Author: FISHER, Alexander.
Title: Dagboek eener ontdekkingsreis naar de Noorderpoolstreken, met de schepen .. Hecla en Griper, in de jaren 1819 en 1820. Uit het Engelsch naar den vierden verbeterden druk, door J. Lehman de Lehnsfeld.
Description: Dordrecht, Blussé en Van Braam, 1822.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With folding map of the Northwest Territories (Canada), including the Melville Island, and 2 woodengravings in the text of a musk ox and an Eskimo. 363,(1) pp.First Dutch edition; a translation of the fourth enlarged edition of A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820. London, 1821. This is an account of the first voyage commanded by the famous explorer of the Arctic William Edward Parry (1790-1855) to search for the Northwest Passage. On this expedition Fisher was assistant surgeon aboard the Hecla. He gives an account of the voyage through Lancaster Sound to Melville island in the western part of the Parry Archipelago. His detailed journal is a valuable supplement to Parry's official account. - (Age-browned). - A fine copy of the rare Dutch edition. Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM; Arctic Bibl. 5022; Howgego II, pp. 464-465; Staton & Tremaine, 1193; Sabin 24453; Hill 605.
Keywords: Arctic Canada Dutch travel Jubileum cat. Pole
Title: Dagboek eener ontdekkingsreis naar de Noorderpoolstreken, met de schepen .. Hecla en Griper, in de jaren 1819 en 1820. Uit het Engelsch naar den vierden verbeterden druk, door J. Lehman de Lehnsfeld.
Description: Dordrecht, Blussé en Van Braam, 1822.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With folding map of the Northwest Territories (Canada), including the Melville Island, and 2 woodengravings in the text of a musk ox and an Eskimo. 363,(1) pp.First Dutch edition; a translation of the fourth enlarged edition of A journal of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper, in the years 1819 & 1820. London, 1821. This is an account of the first voyage commanded by the famous explorer of the Arctic William Edward Parry (1790-1855) to search for the Northwest Passage. On this expedition Fisher was assistant surgeon aboard the Hecla. He gives an account of the voyage through Lancaster Sound to Melville island in the western part of the Parry Archipelago. His detailed journal is a valuable supplement to Parry's official account. - (Age-browned). - A fine copy of the rare Dutch edition. Not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM; Arctic Bibl. 5022; Howgego II, pp. 464-465; Staton & Tremaine, 1193; Sabin 24453; Hill 605.
Keywords: Arctic Canada Dutch travel Jubileum cat. Pole
Price: EUR 1595.00 = appr. US$ 1733.52 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 36195
- Book number: 36195