Author: BOCKSTOCE, JOHN; Editor.
Title: The Journal of Rochfort Maguire 1852-1854. Two years at Point Barrow, Alaska, aboard HMS Plover in the search for Sir John Franklin. Hakluyt Society Second series, Volumes 169-170.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xiv, 318; b/w portrait frontispiece, 5 b/w illustrations, 5 b/w maps. Vol. II. pp. vi, 584; 2 b/w illustrations, 1 b/w map; appendices, bibliography, index. Both volumes with original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, illustration in gilt on front board, dustjacket slightly scuffed and faded, otherwise both very good copies. London, Hakluyt Society, 1988.

Keywords: Rochfort Maguire Point Barrow Alaska HMS Plover Sir John Franklin Artic maritime