4to (272 x 206 mm). Engraved frontispiece map, 2 engraved folding maps, 13 aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates. (Minor pale spotting.) 19th-century half calf gilt, marbled boards, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some light wear). Provenance: Mitton (19th-century signature on title-page); collector's bookplate, a few pencil marks. 

FIRST EDITION, "based on observations made by the author while surgeon on a whaling ship; also (without acknowledgment) on the then-unpublished work of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke and others...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.