(ARCTIC) Parry William Edward Journal of a Voyage for the Di

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(ARCTIC.) Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage. 6 maps, 14 plates. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; joints split, right edge of first folding map bound down, minor foxing and offsetting, rear free endpaper detached. With June 1821 ad leaf. London, 1821

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Second edition. Parry's account of the first of 3 expeditions led by him in search of a Northwest Passage. "The immediate achievements of these voyages were the charting of hundreds of miles of coastline in the Canadian Arctic archipelago and the collecting of valuable data on Arctic natural history"--Hill 1311 (first edition). Does not include the 1824 supplement volume. Sabin 58860.