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MURDOCH, William Gordon Burn.

From Edinburgh to the Antarctic.

An artist's notes and sketches during the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93 by W.G. Murdoch with a chapter by W.S. Bruce naturalist of the barque 'Balæna'.

Stock Code
104937
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1894
£1,000

An important whaling expedition to the Weddell Sea, the first of its kind since 1843. In many respects, the narrative helped to revive British interest in the Antarctic.

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Description

First edition, 8vo, xii, 364 pp., 32 pages ads at end, title vignette, 3 maps (1 folding, 1 full-page, 1 in text), 120 illustrations (8 full-page), original coarse-grain green cloth, upper cover with image of boats and ice in brown and silver, spine and cover lettered in silver, a fine copy.

Bibliography

Taurus 12; Rosove 234.A1.

Stock ID:104937

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