Full title: Voyages to Hudson Bay in Search of a Northwest Passage 1741-1747. Volume I. The Voyage of Christopher Middleton 1741-1742 [–Volume II. The Voyage of William Moor and Francis Smith 1746-1747]. (2nd series, nos 177 and 181.)

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE

2 volumes, octavo (216 x 135mm), pp. I: xii, [2 (blank)], 333, [1 (blank)], [4 (blank ll.)]; II: [2 (blank)], xv, [1 (blank)], 393, [1 (blank)], [4 (blank ll.)]. Half-tone frontispieces. 4 double-page and 17 full-page maps and plans, and 8 full-page illustrations in the text. (Some very light marginal toning, as often.) Original blue cloth, upper boards with Society’s device in gilt, borders ruled in blind, spines lettered in gilt, original dustwrappers, not price-clipped. (Dustwrappers slightly rubbed and marked, as often, edges slightly creased.) A very good set.