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LAING, John.

An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;

An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen;

containing a full description of that country, of the zoology of the north and of the Shetland Isles; with an account of the whale fishery.

Stock Code 108734

London, Mawman, 1818

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Results of Laing's voyages in the Greenland Sea as ship's surgeon on whalers in 1806 and 1807. He describes the ice conditions, walrus, seal, polar bear, reindeer, etc., also whaling methods.

Second edition, corrected and enlarged; 8vo, (17.5 x 10.5 cm); contemporary half calf gilt, morocco lettering piece, marbled boards, light wear to joints and edges, a very good copy; [iv], 173 pp.

Sabin 38653; Arctic Bibliography 9582.

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