FIRST EDITION, 4to (278 x 224mm.), half-title, dedication, 3 folding engraved charts, 12 folding plates, 11 folding printed tables, final leaf with directions to the binder, nineteenth-century vellum-backed pebbled green cloth, flat spine gilt, red morocco label, some marginal repairs to final leaves, minor spotting and offsetting, binding slightly rubbed

Hill (2004) 1351; Sabin 62572

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An important work of early nautical science in the polar regions. It contains a journal of the voyage, and a descriptive catalogue of the natural history and resources of Spitsbergen. This voyage is also notable in that the fourteen year old Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman, under Captain Skeffington Lutwidge, on board the Carcass, one of the two ships that took part in the expedition (the other being the Racehorse, commanded by Phipps).