Miscellanies

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VG, 1st ed, 1781, 8 pls (of 9)(includes the 2 maps). In contemporary marked boards. Respined to style, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to red morocco label. Internally, [2], (iii-iv), [2], (iii-viii), [1], 2-342, [1] tp ff, [1], 344-470, 471-477 *preface, [1], 471-540, 547-557 pp, [1] errata, text is complete, 1 portrait, 5 tables (1 folding), 2 maps (1 folding), lacks the pl of the young Mozart, new endpapers, bookplate to fpd (Thomas Swanwick MD), 1 map cropped in corner to border edge, board tips repaired, ink no to ffep, woodcut to tp. (Folio, 207*267 mm). (ESTC T39448 Sabin 3628. Allibone 9). Barrington, judge, antiquary, and naturalist, who between 1774 and 1776 published several pamphlets on the possibility of reaching the north pole by sea. These, together with Barrington's translation of the journal of the Spaniard Francisco Antonio Maurelle's 1775 voyage in search of the passage, were included, with many of Barrington's other writings, in his Miscellanies, published in 1781. As in much of his other work, Barrington relied heavily-in his arguments favouring the prospect of a northern passage-on accumulating testimonies, in this case of seamen and other travellers making reports of ice-free waters in high latitudes. See ODNB.