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MARKHAM, Clements R., Sir (1830–1916). The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1921. 8vo. Photogravure frontispiece (some spotting), numerous maps and plates, in–text woodcut vignettes. Publisher’s pictorial blue cloth stamped in silver foil (minor rubbing to spine and corners). FIRST EDITION of this important collection of exploration histories in the polar regions from the time of the Norseman to 1912. Arctic Bibliography 10939; Spence 755.