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    Reference 2695 (858)
    Category General Polar;
    Author Pearson, Henry J
    Title THREE SUMMERS AMONG THE BIRDS OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND: With history of Saint Triphon`s Monastery and appendices.
    Publishing Information London: R. H. Porter, 1904.
    Description 1st Edition: xvi,216 pp plus 68 plates and 1 large folding map. Original green cloth covers with gilt tiltling. Top edge gilt. Shelfware, some marks to covers, spine shaken, beginning to loosen. Previous owners signature to front pastedown, missing fep, half title heavily spotted. Pictures of 3 Arctic birds tipped into prelims plus odd neat pencil annotation in margin on odd page of text., some foxing, mainly to prelims and page edges but also affecting pp 45-46 where a newspaper cutting recording of the unfortunate death of Charles Pearson is tipped in in front of a photograph of him.
    Price £250.00
    Keywords qpolarq S1-Pol
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