(ARCTIC) Ross John Sir Narrative of a Second Voyage in Searc

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(ARCTIC.) Ross, John, Sir. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage. 6 maps, 25 plates (3 of them hand-colored). [8], xxxiv, 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, contemporary 1/2 morocco, minor wear, backstrips sunned; intermittent foxing and offsetting. 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.