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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

E-044: John Murray. Very Good. 1819. Hardcover. Leather. 4to. John Murray, London, UK. 1819. Xxxix, 252 pgs, cxliv. With tipped-in errata slip. Illustrated with 3 folding engraved maps (incl. Frontis. ). 27 of 29 plates (including 15 hand-coloured aquatints - 4 folding, 6 uncoloured aquatints - 2 double-page, & 4 engravings - 1 folding) Missing A Voyage through the Ice on pg. 47 and Arctic Highlanders facing page 95., engraved by Havell after drawings by Ross, A. M. Skene, H. P. Hoppner, J. Sackhouse, T. Lewing, D. Havell, J. Bushnan. All plates and maps present. Bound in more recent (20th Century) 1/4 leather and marble paper covered boards with gilt titles and red spine label present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing is present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First Edition of this famous voyage, which marked the resurgence of British interest in the search for the… Read More

London: John Murray, 1819., 1819. 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xxxix, [1]directions to the binder, 252, [1 leaf], cxliv. with tipped-in errata slip. 3 folding engraved maps (incl. frontis.). 25 plates (including 15 hand-coloured aquatints - 4 folding, 6 uncoloured aquatints - 2 double-page, & 4 engravings - 1 folding), engraved by Havell after drawings by Ross, A.M.Skene, H.P.Hoppner, J.Sackhouse, T.Lewing, D.Havell, J.Bushnan. 4 engraved plates of tables (3 folding). several text illus. 19th century half chagrin, gilt back (joints & extremities rubbed, front joint & short tear at head of spine repaired, some offsetting from plates). bookplate of Henry Marquand. First Edition of this famous voyage, which marked the resurgence of British interest in the search for the north-west passage, and inaugurated the great arctic explorations and discoveries of the nineteenth century. Among Ross's officers on the voyage were William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross, and Edward Sabine. Setting out in April of 1818, the… Read More