Author: GEORGE F. M'DOUGALL
Title: The Eventful Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ship "Resolute" to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin and the Missing Crews of H.M. Discovery Ships "Erebus" and "Terror," 1852, 1853, 1854. To which is added an account of her being fallen in with by an American Whaler after her abandonment in Barrow Straits and of her presentation to Queen Victoria by the government of the United States.
Description: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 1st Edition. 8vo. pp.xl, 530, [1, publisher's advert for the engraving of "The Restoration of the Arctic Ship Resolute by the People of the United States to Her Majesty the Queen of England"], 24 [publisher's catalogue]> 8 coloured lithographic plates, hand coloured folding map, printed pastedowns. Original cloth externally rather worn with one side of the spine split, some internal spotting and a little shaken. A not very attractive copy of a book rarely found in the original cloth.

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