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Full Calf. Condición: Good. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged, SIGNED BY Admiral F. L. MCClintock. 8vo (in 12s), pp xi, [i], 828 + colour frontis and 726 b/w woodcuts. Contemporary full calf, five raised spine bands, compartments stamped in blind, with top decoration, aptly, featuring an anchor and rope, green morocco title label, lettered in gilt, gilt and blind fillet border, gilt rolled edges and turn-ins. Marbled edges and end papers. Well-handled: wear and losses to spine ends, corners rounded, upper joint starting, bottom joint tender. Bald patches to rear endpapers. Hand-written prize inscription in brown ink to ffep: "Presented by the Lords of the Admiralty, to Charles Fowling, Shipwright Apprentice for his uniformly good conduct and progress in his studies during the Year 1871," signed below, in a different hand: "F. L. McClintock" and below, in original hand: "Admiral Superintendent.", some foxing, especially to front and rear. Else, clean. Good-only A well-handled naval association copy of this popular C19th physics textbook, awarded to Shipwright Apprentice Charles Fowling for "his uniformly good conduct and progress in his studies during the Year 1871" and signed by the erstwhile Irish Arctic explorer, Sir Leopold McClintock, who served as the Admiral-Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard from April 1872 to May 1877. Sir (Francis) Leopold McClintock KCB FRS (18191907) was an Irish Arctic explorer and British naval officer, known for his discoveries in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and his skill as a long-distance sledger. He led the McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857, a British effort (funded by Lady Franklin) on the steam yacht the Fox, to locate the remains of Captain John Franklin's expedition. The crew spent two years in the region and returned with the written memoranda of Franklin's death, the abandonment of the ships, and the fate of the party, with McClintock and crew awarded the Arctic medal in recognition. He published his account in The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic seas: A narrative of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions (1859).