ROSS JOHN Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North

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ROSS, JOHN. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions. Folding map, 30 plates (8 hand-colored). 4to, later 1/2 calf; foxing throughout but heavier to the plates, short repaired tear to the folding map. London: A. W. Webster, 1835

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first edition. After his failure to explore Lancaster Sound in his first voyage of 1818, Ross had his 1829-33 second voyage privately financed. Although forced to abandon his steamship Victory in the ice at Felix Harbour, his second expedition achieved a number of milestones. Besides the most thorough exploration of Boothia Peninsula that had been accomplished to date, James Clark Ross (John Ross's nephew) undertook an overland journey across the peninsula and became the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole. Arctic Bibliography 14866; Books on Ice 2.6; Sabin 73381; Hill 1490; TPL 1808; Abbey, Travel 636.
with--Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage. 20 plates (12 hand-colored). 4to, early 1/2 calf, nicely rebacked with the original backstrip; minor foxing; armorial bookplate on the front pastedown (Sir Andrew Barclay Walker). London: A. W. Webster, 1835. Sabin 73384.

From the library of Dr. John M. Levinson, with his bookplate.