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SIMPSON, Alexander (b. 1811). The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, The Arctic Discoverer. By His Brother... London: Richard Bentley,
8vo. With frontispiece portrait & engraved folding map. Publisher's original embossed brown cloth (recased preserving original endpapers). FIRST EDITION, including Simpson's descriptions of the explorations undertaken by his brother, Thomas Simpson, in Northern Canada between 1829 and 1840. Thomas Simpson died in mysterious circumstances in present-day Minnesota. Arctic Bibliography 16116; Sabin 81338.