Author: ROSS, John.
Title: De reizen en lotgevallen van Kapitein John Ross op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpoolse gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Description: Amsterdam, Ten Brink & de Vries, 1837. Sm.8vo. Original half cloth, with paper title-label to spine. With lithographed title-page and frontispiece, folding map, and 5 lithographed plates after J. Steyn (foxed). VIII,247 pp. With manuscript schoolprize tipped onto first free endpaper. - A rare Dutch children's version of Ross' famous second voyage in search of a North-West passage with the Victory. Translated from the German language, adapting Ross' diary and William Light's report of the same voyage into one narrative and incorporating various other accounts of polar voyages. Sabin 73388 (German ed.).
Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Pole
Title: De reizen en lotgevallen van Kapitein John Ross op zijne ontdekkings togten naar de Noordpoolse gewesten. Voor jonge lieden. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald.
Description: Amsterdam, Ten Brink & de Vries, 1837. Sm.8vo. Original half cloth, with paper title-label to spine. With lithographed title-page and frontispiece, folding map, and 5 lithographed plates after J. Steyn (foxed). VIII,247 pp. With manuscript schoolprize tipped onto first free endpaper. - A rare Dutch children's version of Ross' famous second voyage in search of a North-West passage with the Victory. Translated from the German language, adapting Ross' diary and William Light's report of the same voyage into one narrative and incorporating various other accounts of polar voyages. Sabin 73388 (German ed.).
Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Pole
Price: EUR 302.50 = appr. US$ 328.77 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 28542
- Book number: 28542