Mckeevor Thomas (5 results)

card cover>. Condition: As New. Facsimile Edition. 78p. Illus. Facsimile of original 1819 London edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. 1st. Bound in publisher's original half brown leather and marbled boards with a red leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library, (non-circulating), with a perforated title page, bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper and stamping in ink on front free endpaper and title page. Chip to the head of the spine and a label has been removed from the heel of the spine. Minor rubbing wear to the extremities of the covers. Interior is clean and bright.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 23cm tall copy, The First Edition, [i],76p., plus 6 engraved plates, in contemporary quarter green morocco toned to brown on the spine, marbled boards, gilt spine titles, inner linen hinges, internal 19th century library stamps, no foxing, fine copy. (cgc) T.P.L. 910-11. Lande 1314. Peel (3)-77. Sabin 43396. A.B. 10643. Matthews 756. The author who sailed as surgeon on a Hudson's Bay Co. vessel's trip to Fort York discusses the probable marine origin of icebergs, the nature of polar bears and the appearance and habits of Eskimos and Indians. A.B. (1-206). McKeever, a Dublin Doctor, accompanied Selkirk's expedition of 1812, as medical adviser.

Contemporary half black calf over blue marbled boards, rebacked in matching calf, spine with 6 raised bands, title in gilt on red calf label on spine, spine with decorative compartment ruling and devices, matching marbled upper and lower verso. , Thomas McKeevor 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, McKeevor 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., Size : 8vo. (215 x 130 mm)., Illustrated with 6 finely hand coloured plates. A fine example, texts and plates are clean and crisp.

London, Sir Richard Phillips and Co 1819. 8vo. (4), 76 pp. With 5 (of 6) engraved plates. New half brown leather and marbled boards with a red leather spine label stamped in gilt. A fine copy. M?Keevor?s account provides detailed descriptions of icebergs and the Inuit people he encountered as a ship?s doctor on the Selkirk expedition of 1812. Arctic Bib. 10643; Lande 1314.