Arctic Expeditions from British and Foreign Shores from the Earliest Times to the Expedition of 1875-76.

Hardcover. Full brown leather richly ornamented in gilt; cover and back cover vignette, gilt; spine ornamentation, gilt; raised bands; bevelled boards; all edges gilt. xiv + 824 pp. Illustrated with 26 full-page lithographs in two colours, and 2 coloured maps, folding. Leather scuffed, with some wear to corners; head of spine slightly frayed; missing front & rear free endpapers; small damp stains to front & rear pastedown margins, offsetting to margins of last couple of pages only, not affecting text; binding cracked; some foxing; but else an otherwise bright, clean interior with nice, birght plates and cover gilt.