8vo (140 x 227 mm). With 6 aquatint plates. (Some offsetting to title-page, a few pale spots.) Modern half calf over marbled boards, uncut. FIRST EDITION. M'Keevor's account provides detailed descriptions of icebergs and the Inuit people he encountered as a ship's doctor on the Selkirk expedition of 1812. Contains a short additional account of the French naval officer Christophe-Paulin de La Poix Frminville's Voyage to the North Pole (London: Sir Richard Phillips, 1819). The present copy is the earlier issue with 76 pp. in the first part (another issue has 78 pp. with preface included in pagination). Arctic Bibliography 10643; Lande 1314; Sabin 43396 (listing 8 plates); TPL 910-11.