Hoppner, Henry Parkyns, officer of the Royal Navy, Arctic explorer and draughtsman (1795-1833). Autograph dedication signed.

No place or date.

8vo. 1 page on bifolium.

 2,500.00

6 lines in an Eskimo-Aleut language, titled "An Esquimaux Song". A collector's note is loosely enclosed: "Captain Henry P. Hoppner, son of the Painter. He accompanied Capt. Parry in the Arctic Expedition, and wrote for me this Esquimaux Song which he had heard the natives sing".

With traces of former mounting verso.