Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 58

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(ARCTIC.) Parry, William Edward. Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage bound with the 1824 A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage . . . Containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History. 6 maps, 20 plates, one folding table. 4to, modern 1/4 morocco; intermittent foxing and offsetting, closed tear to one map. With errata slip and May 1821 ad leaf. London, 1821, 1824
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first 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. Arctic Bibliography 13145; Sabin 58860.