34 - [Iceland] [Greenland] EDMOND (Charles). Voyage in the Northern Seas Aboard the Corvette La Reine Hortense. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1857. One large 8vo volume, in a decorated contemporary cardboard binding. Scattered foxing.

[Iceland] [Greenland] EDMOND (Charles). Voyage in the Northern Seas Aboard the Corvette La Reine Hortense. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1857. One large 8vo volume, in a decorated contemporary cardboard binding. Scattered foxing. First edition, illustrated with numerous en-text and out-of-text drawings engraved by Karl Girardet after watercolors by Giraud and d’Abrantès, a genealogical chart, and two fold-out maps, including a large map of the expedition’s route. Includes: HAYES (J. J.) *The Open Sea of the Pole: Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic Seas, Undertaken in 1860–1861*. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1868. One in-8 volume, in period half-shagreen. Scuffing. French first edition illustrated with 70 woodcuts in the text and as inserts, and 3 color maps. American physician and explorer Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881) recounts his expedition undertaken in 1860–1861 aboard the schooner United States, with the aim of exploring the regions north of Greenland and searching for an ice-free sea near the North Pole.