O'REILLY, Bernard. Greenland, The Adjacent Seas, and The North-West Passage to The Pacific Ocean. London, 1818. FIRST EDITION.
4to (263 x 203 mm). Engraved frontispiece map, 2 engraved folding maps, 13 aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates. (Minor pale spotting.) Modern half black calf preserving portions of original binding leather. Provenance: John Lasham (bookplate). 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"based on observations made by the author while surgeon on a whaling ship; also (without acknowledgement) on the then-unpublished work of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke and others It contains chapters on the ancient history of Greenland, its natives, on arctic zoology, whaling, a Northwest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). Abbey Travel 633; Hill 1263; Sabin 57576.
