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    By Anonymous
    London   T. Nelson and Sons
    7.5" by 5" viii, 238pp.
    A scarce illustrated account of polar expeditions, with anecdotes of adventure, travel, and nature in the frozen regions.
    By Anonymous

    1886 In the Polar Regions or, Nature and Natural History in the Frozen Zone

    London   T. Nelson and Sons
    7.5" by 5" viii, 238pp.
    A scarce illustrated account of polar expeditions, with anecdotes of adventure, travel, and nature in the frozen regions.
    £60.00
    : 0.75kgs / : 880T32
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    Description

    Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

    Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. Accounts of experiences and nature in the polar regions, with chapters on the Arctic summer, polar bears, Eskimos and their dogs, the sea-otter, hunting, the snowy owl, Mount Erebus, and much more. Written anonymously.

    Condition

    In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light shelf wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine and marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. A tear to one plate and a closed tear page 143 where text block has been opened harshly between the two pages. School prize bookplate to the front pastedown.

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