Lot 254
Polar.- Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, 2 vol. in 1 incl. Appendix, 1st ed., 51 eng./lith. maps & plts., some hand-col., cont. russia, 1835.
Hammer Price: £500
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Polar.- Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829...1833, 2 vol. in 1 including Appendix, first edition, 51 engraved or lithographed charts, maps and plates, including one folding chart partly hand-coloured, engraved portrait and 3 mezzotints printed in colours and finished by hand, 18 other plates hand-coloured (mostly lithographs of eskimos), errata leaf at end of each volume, list of subscribers at end, all plates with tissue guards, some foxing to steel-engraved plates and a few leaves of text, one uncoloured lithograph in Appendix foxed and frayed at fore-edge from becoming loose, upper hinge broken, otherwise a good clean copy in contemporary russia, gilt, a little rubbed, split to upper joint, [Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381], 4to, 1835.
⁂ Account of the four-year voyage to the Arctic during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole, and complete with the scarce Appendix which includes accounts of the Eskimos and their language.
Description
Polar.- Ross (Sir John) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829...1833, 2 vol. in 1 including Appendix, first edition, 51 engraved or lithographed charts, maps and plates, including one folding chart partly hand-coloured, engraved portrait and 3 mezzotints printed in colours and finished by hand, 18 other plates hand-coloured (mostly lithographs of eskimos), errata leaf at end of each volume, list of subscribers at end, all plates with tissue guards, some foxing to steel-engraved plates and a few leaves of text, one uncoloured lithograph in Appendix foxed and frayed at fore-edge from becoming loose, upper hinge broken, otherwise a good clean copy in contemporary russia, gilt, a little rubbed, split to upper joint, [Abbey Travel 636; Sabin 73381], 4to, 1835.
⁂ Account of the four-year voyage to the Arctic during which James Clark Ross discovered the North Magnetic Pole, and complete with the scarce Appendix which includes accounts of the Eskimos and their language.
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