Lot 29: BEECHEY (FREDERICK WILLIAM)

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in H.M.S. Blossom... in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28, 2 parts in one vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title, 23 engraved plates, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), errata slip, without advertisement leaf, fore-margins of half-title strengthened with archival tape, some light dampstaining to plates, short tear repaired touching image of one plate, early half calf, rubbed [Forbes 772; Hill 93; Howes B309; Sabin 4347], 4to (273 x 202mm.), Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831