Lot 292
Scoresby, William
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 17 May 2017 at 12:00 BST
Description
An Account of the Arctic Regions... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., folding frontispiece in volume 1, and 23 plates and maps (numbered 1-22, with an additional plate also numbered "12", several folding), folding tables, contemporary half calf rebacked with modern spines, some foxing, browning and a few small marginal tears, tear to one leaf in volume 1 with slight loss to a meteorological table, covers slightly rubbed and chipped (2)
Footnote
Provenance: Bookplates of James Smith of Jordanhill, a Scottish merchant, antiquarian, architect, geologist and author of "Newer Pliocene" (1862) and "Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul" (1848). Also with the purple ownership stamps of Jos. Lowrey.