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LYON, George Francis, Capt. (1796-1832). A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe’s “Welcome”, in His Majesty’s Ship Griper in the Year 1824. London: John Murray, 1825.
8vo. Engraved folding frontispiece map, 7 engraved plates (some spotting, offsetting from plates to text). ORIGINAL BOARDS, UNCUT (modern rebacking, renewed flyleaves). Provenance: contemporary ownership inscriptions; Ann Savours Shirley (1927-2022), ownership inscription. Shirley was a British historian and collector of polar exploration, more notably the head curator at the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University and editor of numerous scholarly works on Robert Falcon Scott.
FIRST EDITION of another account of an attempt at the Northwest Passage; this one through Hudson Bay. Arctic Bib. 10530; Sabin 42851; Hill 1055.