A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repluse Bay, Through Sir Thomas Rowe's "Welcome," In His Majesty's Ship Griper in the year MDCCCXXIV.

8vo, original boards rebacked with later black cloth tape, front hing reinforced with white cloth tape, illustrated with 7 steel engravings and a folding frontispiece map, 8 (ads), xvi, 198, [2] pp. Ex-Northwestern Michigan College copy with their markings and book numbers on the spine, bookplate, circulating pocket, rubberstamps (on pastedown only), etc. Edge wear, some rubbing, rear hinge cracking, scattered foxing, other general wear; else a good or better copy.Another attempt at the Northwest Passage; this one through Hudson's Bay. Interesting accounts are given of Eskimoes of the Southhampton Islands, immediately north of Hudson Bay. Also contained are an appendix concerning magnetic abnormalities in the polar regions, an Abstract of each day's work, and a botanical appendix by Professor J.D. Hooker. The plates are engraved by Edward Finden after drawings by Lyon and Kendall. Includes folding map, "Chart of Hudson's Strait & Sir Thos. Rowe's Welcome showing the Track & Discoveries of H,M.S. Griper in...Repluse Bay...1824." Sabin 42851. Arctic Bib. 10530.