Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 19, 1774.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800 32017

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823, annotator.

Dufief, N. G., 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

51,[1]p. ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

[London, 1775]

Notes:

Signed on pp.13 and 48: Daines Barrington, F.R.S.

Drop-head title.

Includes: "Additional proofs that the polar seas are open. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, Dec. 22, 1774" (pp.[15]-48) and a postscript dated January 8, 1775 (pp.49-51).

Later reissued in 1775 as 'The probability of reaching the North Pole discussed' with additional material.

Local Notes:

Library copy: -Sig A

HSP in LCP.

Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Bound with Priestley, Observations, q.v.; numbers 14-15 in table of contents; item 15 in volume.

Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other works. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief in 1801-1803 by William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (26); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to Historical Society.