Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World, for Magnetical Research

Edité par London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2, 218mm x 140mm). With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Scoresby, a folding map of the track of the ship Royal Charter in her voyage to Port Phillip, and figures and charts in the text. 24 advertisements. Bound in original blind stamped blue cloth gilt. On the smooth spine, title and author gilt. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. Reverand William Scoresby (1789-1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. The son of a wealthy whaling investor, he traveled with his father on whaling expedtions aboard the Resolution from age 11. He was a member of the British Association of Science, contributing to the knowledge of terrestial magneti, 1859

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London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 218mm x 140mm). With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Scoresby, a folding map of the track of the ship Royal Charter in her voyage to Port Phillip, and figures and charts in the text. 24 advertisements. Bound in original blind stamped blue cloth gilt. On the smooth spine, title and author gilt. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. Reverand William Scoresby (1789-1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. The son of a wealthy whaling investor, he traveled with his father on whaling expedtions aboard the Resolution from age 11. He was a member of the British Association of Science, contributing to the knowledge of terrestial magnetism. The first part of the Journal concerns the exposition of magnetical principles, and the phenomena of magnetism and compos-action and disturbance in iron ships. The second part is a narrative of the voyage. From the collection of Theodore "Ted" Benttinen (1948-2023), an MIT-educated oceanographer explorer who went to both poles on research missions. Benttinen amassed a formidable collection of books of exploration, particularly strong in Pacific voyages as well as in polar accounts. The present volume was lot 28 in the Sotheby's New York 9 December 2024 sale of his library. …

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Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World, for Magnetical Research
Auteur
Scoresby, Rev. William
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1859. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2, 218mm x 140mm). With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Scoresby, a folding map of the track of the ship Royal Charter in her voyage to Port Phillip, and figures and charts in the text. 24 advertisements. Bound in original blind stamped blue cloth gilt. On the smooth spine, title and author gilt. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell box. Reverand William Scoresby (1789-1857) was an English whaler, Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman. The son of a wealthy whaling investor, he traveled with his father on whaling expedtions aboard the Resolution from age 11. He was a member of the British Association of Science, contributing to the knowledge of terrestial magneti
Année de publication
1859
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Very Good
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Hardcover
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1st Edition
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Australiana, Voyages

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