Early photography Rare The Bookshop

First edition. Large folio (64 x 52 cm. approx), half-title, title in red and black, dedication leaf, 141 mounted albumen photographs (116 mounted in the text and 25 mounted as inserted plates, including one double-page plate), mounted on guards throughout, original brown morocco gilt by Leighton Son and Hodge with gilt pictorial vignette by G. Littlejohn to upper cover, neatly rebacked preserving spine, light fading to photographs, a very good copy of one of the most remarkable books on the Arctic.

4to. 28, [2] pp., 12 mounted photographs. Original beveled cloth, gilt. A Very Good copy.