Expediciones - exploraciones

1823 · ref. 55059 — London John Murray Albemarle Street 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Clean Some Wear To Boards And Calf At Extremities Fade at Upper Spine Area. Sm Quarto Half Calf Spine and Corners Wrapped Marbled Boards. Twenty Six Plates There are Eleven Hand Colored Plates and a second Identical Extra-Illustraterd Uncolored Plates Identical Illustrations with Publisher and Illustrator Credits in The Same Weight Paper not Proof Before Letters B & W Engraving And A Second Hand Colored Followed By Four Plates Of Plants At The End Of The Appendix And Followed By Four Maps The Order Of Which and Titles Are Different Than the Book Index shows: Chart of the Discoveries & Route Northern Land Expedition Under The Command Of Captain Franklin An Outline To Show The Connected Discoveries Of Captains Ross Parry & Franklin in the Years 1818 19 20 21 22 & 23 Which is Hand Colored Showing the Outline Of Water and A Route In Red Line Route From York Factory To Isle A Cumberland House and The Summer & Winter Tracks From There To Isle A La Cross in 1819 & 1820And The Fourth Map is Route Of The Expedition FROM ISLE A LA CROSS TO Fort Providence in 1819 & 20. Provenance: from the SItwell Family Library At Weston Hall U. K. The Sitwell Family Seat For 300 Years. This Book Likely Arrived At Weston Hall During The time Of Harriet W. Wrightson 1788-1864 and Col. Henry HELY- Hutchinson Who Was The Nephew of General Lord Hutchinson later 2nd Earl Of Dronoughmore. It Remained Their Until The Family Sold The Library at Auction in 2021. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street hardcover