Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833; Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, James Clark Ross, and the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole
London: A.W. Webster, 1835. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. [7], ii-xxxiii, [2], 2-740 pp. Recent half blue buckram over marbled boards with a recent black morocco label lettered and ruled in silver on the spine. Recent endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding chart at the beginning and one at the end of the volume, and with 27 plates. Our copy's plates, titles, imprints, and contents correspond with Abbey's entry except Abbey calls out a few plates as colour lithographs, and ours are done in black and white (Andrewross Island, Ikmalick and Apelagliu, Shulanina, Umingmak, Somerset House, and Ground Plan of Somerset House all in black and white). The three mezzotints and two colored charts in our copy correspond to Abbey's entry. Without the separately printed appendix volume. With all plates called-for present. Ross' Narrative was published with an appendix volume, our copy is volume one only. Abbey 636. Arctic Bibliography 14866. Hill 1490. With descriptions of the Inuit peoples living on the Boothia Peninsula. In this volume Ross discusses the effects of the cold on his men and the crew's supplies. With the record of James Clark Ross' arrival at the North Magnetic Pole. Very Good+. Item #000013802
The binding is Fine, the leaves show some foxing but remain sharp.
Price: $850.00