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BARRINGTON, Daines (1727-1800). Miscellanies by the Honourable Daines Barrington. London: J. Nichols, 1781. 4to (259 x 209mm). 2 engraved plates, 2 engraved folding maps, 5 genealogical tables (some light offsetting). (Title-page creased). Contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: contemporary ink annotations identifying anonymized names: R. Stevens, 1811 (inscription); Edward Maccias, 1876 (inscription); Frank Dodd-Thomas, 1887 (inscription); Louis F. Javete (Seattle collector, his sale PBA Galleries, 1997); Martin L. Greene (booklabel), notable polar collector; his sale, Christie’s New York, 7 December 2017, lot 56. FIRST EDITION of Barrington’s collected essays, including Tracts on the Possibility of Reaching the North Pole. This work also contains the first publication of Bodega y Quadra’s Alaskan voyage, translated by Barrington from the original manuscript. Hill 56; Lada-Mocarski 34; Sabin 3628; Streeter sale 2445; Wickersham 6653; not in Arctic Bib.