Memorandum book: Arctic discovery

Memorandum book. Arctic discovery. Author's holograph MS. The 178 pp. contain extracts from works on Arctic exploration. The title-page is signed and dated 1848. The remainder of the MS. contains personal observations and notes by the author, made while serving on H.M.S. North Star in 1852 during the search for Sir John Franklin.

1848-1852

178 pp. + 10 ll. + 29 bl. ll. + 5 ll. 4to. 221/2 x 181/2 cm. Original half-calf binding.

Presented 1907.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).