Phipps, C. Voyage au Pole Boréal, fait en 1773,
par ordre du Roi d'Angleterre (...). Traduit de l'Anglois. Paris, Saillant/ Pissot, 1775. XII,259 p. With 12 numb. fold. engravings: 3 maps, 2 plates w. profile views, 2 other views and 5 plates, 11 fold. letterpress tables (included in the pagination). Cont. marbled calf, triple gilt fillet borders, marbled endpapers and edges, gilt and ribbed spine w. mor. letterpiece, 4to. Minor hole in leather of frontcover near spine, top of spine with sm. chip, outer corners (sl.) worn. Very good and attractive copy, w. sm. bookplate of I. Eyries on upper pastedown. Old letterpress biographical clipping on the author tipped onto lower pastedown.