Author: MAGUIRE Rochfort
Title: The Journal of Rochfort Maguire, 1852-1854. 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
Description: Hakluyt Society,, 1988. 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.

Keywords: travel, hakluyt society, rochfort maguire, alaska, barrow point, hms plover, franklin, sir john franklin, north west passage


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