The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854
MAGUIRE, Rochfort
Two Years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS PLOVER in the Search for Sir John Franklin. Edited by John Bockstoce.
NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Hakluyt Society, 1988
Stock code: 47860
Price: £80.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
With personal bookplate on front paste-down of first volume. Includes much material on encounters and relations with 'Eskimos'. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 169, 170. Bridges & Hair, p.294.