SABINE, EDWARD. - MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE ANTARCTIC.

Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism.- No. VI.: Observations made on Board Her Majesty's Ships Erebus and Terror, from June 1841 to August 1842, in the Arctic Expedition under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.

(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1844).

4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1843 - Part II. Pp. 87-224 and 5 engraved plates, including the 3 importent large folded maps of the South Seas. Some lvs. of text with a small worntract, 2 lvs. a bit soiled. Repairs to verso of one map with a tear.

A pioneer work in antarctic science.

Order-nr.: 46392