TOWSON, JOHN.

Icebergs in the Southern Ocean; a paper read before the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, on the 19th of November, 1857, with observations made from more recent reports.

Liverpool, T. Brakell, 1859. 8vo. In later half cloth with paper label pasted on to upper left corner of front board. Stamps to verso of front board, front free end-paper and title-page. With four tiny holes in inner margin, presumably the traces after the sown wrappers. (4), 16 pp. + folded worldmap.

Early report for the mercantile marine on icebergs in the high Southern latitudes. Townson's sightings were frequently used and cited by carthographers.

Order-nr.: 58376