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BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). The Possibility of Approaching the North Pole Asserted… A New Edition. With an Appendix ... by Colonel
8vo. With half-title, folding engraved frontispiece map. (Some offsetting of map to title, some foxing.) Contemporary cloth with modern calf label.Second edition, but the first under this title and with Beaufoy's appendix. Barrington first published on this topic in 1775 and then in a chapter of his Miscellanies on Various Subjects of 1781. The appendix, pp. 227-258, questions the practicality of using reindeer to reach the North Pole. Arctic Bibliography 1092; see Hill 57; Sabin 3629; TPL 477.