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Edward Moss, 1878
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Shores of the Polar Sea
Edward Moss, 1878
MOSS, Edward (fl. 1870s). Shores of the Polar Sea: a Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.
The first edition of a landmark of polar landscape art. Moss served as Surgeon on Nares’s ill-fated North Pole expedition. This account of the harrowing journey is illustrated by remarkable chromolithographs after Moss’s drawings, which record the dramatic landscapes, eerie light, and haunting strangeness of the region.
Folio (480 x 330mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, one map, 16 chromolithographs, in-text illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt (hinges reinforced, spine and extremities rubbed, light chipping to endpapers). Provenance: gift inscription to half-title dated 1879.
Edward Moss, 1878
MOSS, Edward (fl. 1870s). Shores of the Polar Sea: a Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.
The first edition of a landmark of polar landscape art. Moss served as Surgeon on Nares’s ill-fated North Pole expedition. This account of the harrowing journey is illustrated by remarkable chromolithographs after Moss’s drawings, which record the dramatic landscapes, eerie light, and haunting strangeness of the region.
Folio (480 x 330mm). Half-title, title printed in red and black, one map, 16 chromolithographs, in-text illustrations throughout. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt (hinges reinforced, spine and extremities rubbed, light chipping to endpapers). Provenance: gift inscription to half-title dated 1879.
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