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* NARES, George Strong, Sir (1831-1915). Journals and Proceedings of the Arctic Expedition, 1875-6, Under the Command of Captain Sir George S. Nares, Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. London: Harrison & Sons for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, [1877]. Small folio (329 x 201 mm). With 32 maps & plates (mostly folding). (Light spotting to maps and plates.) 19th-century cloth (rebacked & re-cornered in modern brown morocco). Provenance : Free Public Library and Museum, Blackburn (early ink library stamps on title-page and a few preliminaries). FIRST EDITION. Arctic Bibliography 45255. Estimate $400-600