The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted / By the Hon. D. Barrington.
| Author/creator | Barrington, Daines |
| Other author | Beaufoy, Mark, 1764-1827. |
| Other author | Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | A new edition. With an appendix, containing papers on the same subject and on a Northwest Passage. By Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. Illustrated with a map of the North Pole, according to the latest discoveries. |
| Publication Info | New-York : Published by James Eastburn & Co. at the Literary Rooms, Broadway, corner of Pine-Street. Abraham Paul, printer, 1818. |
| Description | xiii, 2 unnumbered pages, 16-187 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 43240. ^A575643 |
| Contents | Instances of navigators who have reached high northern latitudes. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society, May 19, 1774 -- Additional proofs, &c. Read at a meeting of the Royal Society. Dec. 22, 1774 -- Postscript. January 8, 1775 -- Additional papers from Hull -- Thoughts on the probability, expediency, and utility of discovering a passage by the North Pole -- A short account of navigators, who have reached high northern latitudes -- Observations on the floating ice, which is found in high northern and southern latitudes -- Appendix. Papers on approaching the North Pole and on a Northwest Passage / By Colonel Beaufoy, F.R.S. The papers are extracted from Thomson's Annals of philosophy, by permission of Colonel Beaufoy -- On the Northwest Passage; and the insular form of Greenland. |
| General note | Running title: On approaching the North Pole. |
| General note | Spine title, on printed paper label: Barrington and Beaufoy on the North Pole. With a map. Eastburn & Co. edition. |
| General note | Title page vignette signed: Anderson. |
| General note | Engraved frontispiece has title: Map of the countries around the North Pole according to the latest discoveries. |
| General note | Last page blank. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 43240 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 43240). |
| Genre/form | Maps Arctic Regions. |
| Other title | On approaching the North Pole. |
| Other title | Barrington and Beaufoy on the North Pole. |