Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 292
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ARCTIC.) Ross, John. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage. 6 maps, 25 plates (3 of them hand-colored). [8], xxxiii, [1], 740 pages. * Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage. 20 plates (12 of them hand-colored). xii, 120, cxliv, ciii pages. 2 volumes. 4to, unmatched modern 1/4 calf; minor foxing and wear, long repaired tear to first map; Edinger bookplates, and 1835 ownership label of Charles Kirkby on front pastedown of appendix. London, 1835

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first editions of the accounts of Ross's privately funded second Arctic voyage, resulting in the most extensive exploration of the Boothia Peninsula to date, during which Ross's nephew James Clark Ross became the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole. Abbey Travel 636; Arctic Bibliography 14866; Books on Ice 2.6; Hill 1490; Lande 1426; TPL 1808.