Greenland O´Reilly 1818 with plates

GREENLAND. O´REILLY, BERNARD. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the Northwest Passage.... London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, 1818.
4to (285 x 210 mm). Engraved frontispiece map, 2 engraved folding maps, 13 aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates (some foxing, long map with some tears to folds, small loss of margin).
Modern brown cloth. Namestamp on title. Foxing.

Abbey Travel 633, Sabin 54576. With 6 plates of birds, Polar bear, whales etc.

First edition, "based on observations made by the author while surgeon on a whaling ship, also (without acknowledgement) on the then-unpublished work of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke and others... It contains chapters on the ancient history of Greenland, its natives, on arctic zoology, whaling, a Northwest Passage, Disko, etc." (Arctic Bibliography 12852).

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