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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Thomas M'Keevor served as the physician for the second group of Selkirk settlers that set out in 1812 for the Red River Colony in Canada. This short account of what he witnessed, particularly the crossing of Hudson Bay, appeared in 1819. Greatly interested in icebergs, M'Keevor discusses these 'sea mountains' in detail. He also describes the Inuit peoples encountered, giving a short glossary of Inuit words. Presenting a vivid account of the scene, he was clearly moved by seeing a polar bear protecting her cubs from a hunting party sent out from the ship. Also published in this volume is a brief account in English of the 1806 voyage of the Sirène by the French naval officer Fréminville. Initially tasked with attacking British whalers off Spitsbergen, the frigate came close to the coast of Greenland, yet most of the time on land was spent in Iceland, where observations were made of the Icelandic people, fauna and geology.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lacking 3 plates. Ex-institutional collection, "Societe de Lecture de Geneve" with rubber stamps on main title. Near contemporary 19th century quarter leather and paste-paper boards. Lettering piece on spine split with small losses. Page dimensions: 214 x 132mm. Page edges dyed red. Some rubbing to joints. Moderate rubbing and wear to edges and corners of boards. Gutters split at endpapers. ; This volume is divided into 8 individually paginated sections, each with their own part title leaf. The imprints on the part titles are either undated, dated 1819, or dated 1820. The volume is lacking 3 plates in total. Lacking two plates from McKeevor's "Voyage to Hudson's Bay" - the frontispiece "Island of Resolution", and the final plate "A Moonlight Scene on the Ice." Also lacking one plate, "View of the Town and Fort of Mosambique", from Prior's "Voyage to the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans". The "Chart of the Route of the Nisus plate", also from Prior's "Voyage", has been backed with thicker paper; and the following plate also has paper backing a 3" tear along one of the folds. The plate "Slaves in Barbadoes" in Waller's "Voyage in the West Indies" has been cropped at the upper margin, with loss to some of the printed area of the plate. Waller also has a 2" tear without loss to the title leaf. Contents: I. "Travels in Egypt [. . .]" by Count de Forbis; II. "A Voyage to Hudson's Bay, during the Summer of 1812 [. . .]" by Thomas M'Keevor. This is followed by Freminville's "Voyage to the North Pole", which is continously pagination from M'Keevor's "Voyage", but with a separate title page. III. "Narrative of the Thirty-four Years' Slavery and Travels in Africa" by P. J. Dumont. IV. "Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Hendrick Portenger, a Private Soldier of the late Swiss Regiment De Meuron, who was wrecked on the Shores of Abyssinia, in the Red-Sea" by R. De May. V. "Travels of M. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia". VI. "Voyage along the Eastern Coast of Africa, to Mosambique, Johanna, and Quiloa; to St. Helena; to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco, in Brazil" by James Prior. VII. "A Voyage of Discovery to the Strait of Magellan; with an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; and of the Natural Productions of Patagonia, undertaken by order of the King of Spain" by Admiral Don A. De Cordova. VIII. "A Voyage in the West Indies: containing various Observations made during a residence in Barbadoes, and several of the Leeward Islands; with some Notices and Illustrations relative to the City of Paramarabo, in Surinam" by John Augustine Waller. Pagination of the entire volume: xii preliminary leaves; Forbin - [iv], 95, [1] pages + 7 plates (including folding frontispiece "General View of the Pyramids of Gheza; M'Keevor - [iv], 76 pages + 4 only of 6 plates. The 4 plates are bound in following de Freminville; de Freminville - [iv], (77)-96 pages; Dumont - vi, 42 pages + frontispiece; de May - 28 pages; Travels of M. Burckhardt - 32 pages; Prior - [(iii)-v (advertisements)], [1 (errata)], 114 pages + 2 folding maps, lacking 1 plate (View of the Town and Fort of Mosambique); de Cordova - viii, 104 pages + frontispiece + 1 folding map; Waller - [iv], 106 pages + 6 plates + 1 map (the plates and the map all bound in at rear).

2 works in one volume. 8vo., (9 x 5 6/8 inches). Fine aquatint frontispiece and four aquatint plates, and one engraved plate (this last a bit spotted). Modern calf backed marbled paper boards. First editions, published in volume II, numbers 2 and 8 respectively of "Voyages and Travels", a serial publication issued in monthly parts by Richards between about 1819 and 1824. M'Keevor was a medical advisor on Thomas Douglas, fifth earl of Selkirk's expedition of 1812 to establish a colony at Red River, the first European settlement in what is now western Canada. M'Keevor records in considerable detail the customs of Inuit natives and Arctic geography and fauna, as well as an account of the Red River settlement. Accompanying his description are spectacular aquatints of ice-flows, iceburgs, and an engraving of a polar bear. Bound with Christophe Paulin Chevalier de las Poix de Freminiville's "Voyage to the North Pole" in 1806, one of his earliest voyages. An archeologist, sailor and naturalist de Freminville began his career on the seas in 1801, inspired by the voyages of Captain James Cook, which he is reputed to have read for the first time at the age of 8. Rising steadily through the ranks he became a captain in 1830. During his many years at sea Freminiville was involved in several scientific expeditions. Between the years 1823-1829 he sailed along the Central and Southern American coastline, and as on all his voyages, drawing coastal profiles and views, and specimens of exotic creatures, some of which were named in his honour, including a number of marine species, but most notably the Eagle Ray (Myliobatis Fremonvillei). Arctic Biblio. 10643; TPL 910; Lande 1314; Peel 53; Sabin 43396; Winsor VIII, p.1-77.