Howgate, Henry W.

Polar Colonization. Memorial to Congress and Action of Scientific and Commercial Associations

Washington, D.C. Beresford Printer [circa 1879], 1st edition. () 143pp. Very good. Octavo in original printed wrappers, repaired, with folding map frontispiece of the North Polar Regions of the Western Hemisphere showing the location of the Proposed Colony on Lady Franklin Bay, and 2 plates from photos. Faint institutional stamp on rear wrapper and very small perforated stamp on the front wrapper. Very scarce. AB 7454. Contains a review of recent expeditions to the Smith Sound region; outline of a plan for an expedition to and establishment of a colony at Lady Franklin Bay, with a report on the Howgate Preliminary Arctic Expedition to Cumberland Sound in 1877-78.

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