FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 130mm.), folding lithographed map, 12 mounted photographs, original blindstamped blue cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase, map with short tears and repair to verso, cloth very slightly rubbed at extremities

Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Bt. (1806–1896), signature dated 1876 in pencil and in ink on front paste-down, and signed inscription on title: "Captain Allen Young went to the Polar Region when I was serving Naval Lord. Milne"; Angus McMillan, armorial bookplate; Franklin Brooke-Hitching, sale in these rooms, 30 September 2015, lot 1394

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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Young’s voyage in the Pandora was made in order “to make a search for further records and for the journals of the ships Erebus and Terror” (p. iii), and also in support of the British Arctic Expedition commanded by George Nares.