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[ARGONAUT PRESS]. STEFANSSON, Vilhjalmur (1879-1962). The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher In search of a passage to Cathay and India by the North-West… London: The Argonaut Press, 1938. 4tos. Illustrated. 2 volumes. 166; [295] pp. Publisher's white pigskin backstrips over brown buckram boards, front boards decoratively stamped in colors, spines lettered in gilt (bindings toned, rubbed, with thumbsoiling, occasional bubbling to cloth at pigskin, hinges just starting, text toned, bookseller's ticket on rp. of volume I). Bookplate of lawyer and stockbroker Charles C. Auchincloss on fp. of volume I. #42/475 OF COPIES PRINTED ON JAPON VELLUM. Frobisher, explorer and privateer, went in search of the Northwest Passage in 1576.